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Facebook busted for trying to smear at Google, let the punch begin!

May 12th, 2011        

Facebook busted for trying to smear at Google, let the punch begin!

A conspiracy has surfaced over in the Silicon Valley. Someone submitted an internal email that shows a famous PR firm requesting a blogger to say something bad about Google, and got rejected. So what happened?

Burson-Marsteller is a top public-relations firm, and it’s hired by someone to pitch some anti-Google stories to newspaper, claiming that Google was invading people’s privacy, which they hope will spark some investigation by some people into Google. Now, Burson wanted the conspiracy to have a bigger impact, so they offered to help an influential blogger write a Google-bashing op-ed, which they hope it would be featured in outlets like The Washington Post, Politico, and The Huffington Post.

The plot backfired when the blogger turned down Burson’s offer and posted the emails that Burson had sent him. It got worse when USA Today broke a story accusing Burson of spreading a “whisper campaign” about Google “on behalf of an unnamed client.”

But who was the mysterious unnamed client? While fingers pointed at Apple and Microsoft, The Daily Beast discovered that it’s a company nobody suspected—Facebook. The company that has the most privacy issue!

So what did Facebook say about this issue? Well, a Facebook spokesman has confirmed that Facebook hired Burson, citing two reasons: First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns; second, and perhaps more important, because Facebook resents Google’s attempts to use Facebook data in its own social-networking service.

Read the full story over at Yahoo!News, but I just wanted to say something about this. Facebook is indeed a big portal for this new age. It’s enjoying its glory days just like how Facebook and MySpace used to be, but in a larger scale thanks to iPhone and Android, but I’m saying this, Google is the REAL Skynet! You just see how things unfold later.

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