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I want to add that he wrote a post about my company and product (Rocketbox, http://www.getrocketbox.com), but ABSOLUTELY NO COMPENSATION CHANGED HANDS. I would think that most of the companies he wrote about are in a similar situation, where they did nothing wrong but their article has also been deleted.

It's too bad this happened, I really hope he learns from this experience.

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And that is exactly why this is such a bad thing, basically any company the guy ever wrote about is now 'under suspicion', which is why TC should clean up this mess completely.

To be fair I'm not sure that's possible. I doubt any company that bribed him is going to admit it and the kid's dishonest so there's no telling how true what he says is. If Techcrunch posts who they think offered a bribe and are wrong that's even worse (not to mention being liable)

I think Techcrunch has done all they can do by deleting every post this guy wrote

Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

But it just feels weird to have that shadow hang over the rest of those companies, they obviously didn't do anything wrong.

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