Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical ‘Sock Puppets’, from ThinkProgress earlier this month; somehow I'd missed it.
(Note: the original user was open about his/her Koch ties, but apparently later created/recruited sockpuppets or meatpuppets, which is verboten - as is editing pages where you have a conflict of interest, which s/he also did.)
New Media Strategies was the PR firm they used here, but it's one of many: "the billionaire Koch brothers maintain contracts with over a dozen public relation firms and lobbying firms."
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This may be the same outfit that the national Chamber of Commerce hired to launch hit pieces against its critics. I heard a report about this somewhere, and I've been trying to run it down.
OK, I should have noticed before that you already reported on the Chamber scandal (or what should be a scandal), here:
http://ncfocus.blogspot.com/2011/02/thinkprogress-bombshell-chamber-of.html
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