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Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:04AM from the smell-of-fresh-cut-astroturf dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft, partnered with Machinima, has put forth a promotion for YouTube personalities: make a video about the Xbox One and get money for it. Problematically, they also require the reviewer not to disclose that they're getting paid (or mention anything negative), which breaks FTC disclosure rules (PDF). Microsoft has a well-known history of astroturfing, but is this the first proof of them doing it illegally?"

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Re:greed fear ego based corepirate nazis lacking by couchslug · 2014-01-21 02:07 · Score: -1, Troll

Psycho much?
If your stream of consciousness (I'll use the term loosely) resembles your sentence structure you are in dire need of suicide.

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Re:M$ is the king of astroturfing by lwriemen · 2014-01-21 03:16 · Score: -1, Troll

If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Posts like yours are automatically modded to oblivion anymore, because as you've pointed out, /. has been targeted by the Microsoft astroturfers. I'm starting to wonder if the MS shills outnumber the *nix users now. Rename to \.?