Go read this investigation into the online slander industry and who’s making money on it
Posted on AllSides April 26th, 2021
From The Left
Websites promising to “fix” an online reputation that has been damaged by so-called gripe sites often are run by the same people, a new investigation in the New York Times reveals. Times reporter Aaron Krolik tested the system by writing a fake nasty post about himself on one such site, and watched it metastasize across the internet. Companies offering “reputation management” can charge upwards of $20,000 to scrub such false reports from the internet.
The unverified claims are on obscure, ridiculous-looking sites, but search engines give them a veneer of...