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[ NNSquad ] Verizon caught in astroturfing campaign in New Jersey
Verizon caught in astroturfing campaign in New Jersey
http://j.mp/1padcRU (Ars Technica)
Verizon doesn't want to deploy high-speed wired broadband service to
all New Jersey residents, despite receiving financial perks from the
state for the past 20 years in exchange for building a statewide
network. To make sure it doesn't have to complete the buildout to all
of New Jersey's 8.9 million residents, Verizon led an astroturf
campaign that flooded the state Board of Public Utilities (BPU) with
hundreds of identical e-mails purporting to support Verizon's case.
One person who is listed as having written one of these e-mails told
Ars that he didn't submit anything, and if he did, "I would've slammed
them." A report in Stop the Cap this month found several other Verizon
"supporters" who had no idea e-mails were submitted under their names.
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--Lauren--
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