Comments on: Fake blogs evolve http://www.adotas.com/2009/06/fake-blogs-evolve/ Where Interactive Advertising Begins Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: JoAnne Alter http://www.adotas.com/2009/06/fake-blogs-evolve/#comment-769582 JoAnne Alter Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:39:46 +0000 http://www.adotas.com/2009/06/fake-blogs-evolve/#comment-769582 The fake blog and fake news junk makes it that much harder for Web publishers--those of us who actually try to give site visitors useful information--to remain credible, much less, viable. I recently saw a Twitter post, complete with bit.ly link, for a gushing, get-rich-quick scheme fake article. Fake author byline and photo, all on a fake newspaper template. Somehow, I didn't think of it as "evil genius." The only word that came to mind was, and still is, "repulsive." The fake blog and fake news junk makes it that much harder for Web publishers–those of us who actually try to give site visitors useful information–to remain credible, much less, viable.

I recently saw a Twitter post, complete with bit.ly link, for a gushing, get-rich-quick scheme fake article. Fake author byline and photo, all on a fake newspaper template.

Somehow, I didn’t think of it as “evil genius.” The only word that came to mind was, and still is, “repulsive.”

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