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Facebook Accused of ‘Astroturfing’ Reddit to Silence Criticism
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonLast night it was announced that the social networking giant had agreed to acquire Oculus for $400 million in cash and $1.6 billion in shares.
Reddit users responded to the acquisition by expressing fears that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s control of Oculus could ruin the company’s progress.
Such concerns were met with suspicious rebuttals from several different accounts which used identical language and appeared to rely on canned answers.
A post which read, “Mark isn’t building a giant, single Facebook company. He is a building a giant network of separate companies that leverage the Facebook social network,” was posted by two completely different users in two different sections of Reddit.