Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical ‘Sock Puppets’

[Dappleganger]

Last year, Koch Industries began employing New Media Strategies (NMS), an Internet PR firm that specializes in “word-of-mouth marketing” for major corporations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, AT&T, Dodge and Ford. It appears that, ever since the NMS contract was inked with Koch, an NMS employee began editing the Wikipedia page for “Charles Koch,” “David Koch,” “Political activities of the Koch family,” and “The Science of Success” (a book written by Charles). Under the moniker of “MBMAdmirer,” NMS employees edited Wikipedia articles to distance the Koch family from the Tea Party movement, to provide baseless comparisons between Koch and conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros, and to generally delete citations to liberal news outlets. After administrators flagged the MBMAdmirer account as a “sock puppet” — one of many fake accounts used to manipulate new media sites — a subsequent sock puppet investigation found that MBMAdmirer is connected to a number of dummy accounts and ones owned by NMS employees like Jeff Taylor.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/

[Boswell]

1. all I know is if you mention the Stalin connection

with that family you will get deleted, seems like NMS has some drones in the mods here

[TomCADem]

2. I Wonder Whether They Hire Folks To Post On Liberal Websites

To attack Democrats while giving Republicans a free pass. Let me see, do the posts that bash on Democrats appear on the Greatest Hits page?

[KittyWampus]

6. That is what the ratfuckers do. Attack the Left FROM THE LEFT. For sure some of that happens on DU

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. The standards at Wiki are higher than the ones Kock inc. are accustom to.

[malaise]

4. Don't you wonder how many NMS hacks

are posting here and calling CSpin daily.

[KittyWampus]

5. I find this really funny, actually.

[emulatorloo]

7. Fascinating n/t

[PA Democrat]

8. Koch Brothers achilles heel is their need to be admired.

They have incredible egos that demand that they be admired by the public despite their dirty machinations in secret to undermine democracy.

Attack them where it hurts them the most: their reputations. Email, link and rate up stories which expose their greed, their lies, their corruption.

[Dappleganger]

9. "Email, link and rate up stories"

This is what I do. ;)

[PA Democrat]

10. Me too. Gotta show the Koch boys a little "love"

:yourock: