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Haaretz' Talkback Experiment

While much of the internet is still talking about the Los Angeles Times' aborted "Wikitorial" experiment, nobody seems to have noticed that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (which I scrape for RSS feeds, since the official feeds are only accessible in Hebrew) recently added a "Talkback" feature to their website, following the lead of other Israeli [...]

Chinese Internet Police are Astroturfing

Not content to simply restrict their citizens' access to Internet topics they consider obscene or inflammatory, the Chinese government is now resorting to astroturfing to affect political discussions online. Astroturfing is the practice by using the relative anonymity of the Internet to create a positive image of a company, organization, person, or in this case, [...]