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Fake bloggers

Updated : Tuesday 2 February 2010

An advertiser sets up fake blogs with fake bloggers, who use a false name to leave messages on other people’s blogs, praising the advertiser’s product, for instance.

  • Coty, which owns Calvin Klein, used this as an advertising technique to set up 5 fake blogs to promote the concept of the “technosexual”, the creation of CK. They were soon found out, as there are no secrets on the internet. The bloggers claimed damages.

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