Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal
businessinsider.com
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How does that make it okay?
Why should size of the company matter?
It's not about the size of the company. It's because there is a glut of bad press about facebook currently. This is an example of a mild story being blown out of proportion to garner clicks, because it's fashionable to hate facebook at the moment.
// figure of speech, looks like 2 1/4 billion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Can you name a few examples?
It's also against Amazon's rules for customer reviews, disclosure or not. It's no gray area. It's the first example of a prohibited activity, under "Promotions and Commercial Solicitations".
Do tobacco executives smoke?
Astroturfing is such an amateur move, I fully believe he's unfamiliar with social media-- else he'd understand the implications of getting outed.
If someone wants to deny an accusation they say "of course it wasn't me, because I would never do something so amateurish".
And if they do not choose to deny it, they say "of course it was not intentional, because I would never have been so obvious if it was".
The thing about these comments is that one or the other can virtually always be used regardless of the malfeasance conditional on whether denial is possible. So they do not usually provide a reason to doubt the accusation.
That's not what the article said.
> neither coordinated nor directed from the company. From an internal post at the launch: “We, unequivocally, DO NOT want Facebook employees to engage in leaving reviews for the products that we sell to Amazon.” We will ask them to take down.
What happened was I skimmed the article looking for support of what you said, and didn't find it initially. But then again, my eyes tend to blur when reading BI articles.