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Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog

Posted by kdawson on from the paid-me-to-do-it dept.

Scott Jaschik writes "At Hunter College, professors are debating the ethics of a course in which an industry group paid for a class to develop a fake student who would write a fake blog to discourage other students from buying knockoff products. The controversy involves both commercial interference with academic freedom and the ethics of 'guerilla marketing.'"

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  1. Re:Fake Blog, Fake Student- by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Why does the porridge bird lay its egg in the air?"

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."