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The astroturf scandal: Why all these identical letters?

January 22nd, 2003 · No Comments

Mike Magee posted a screenshot of the HTML form that generates this letter–a spam-generating engine run by the Republican National Committee.

Irate Republicans wrote to the Inquirer complaining about these revelations. Okay, so people were sending out press releases from the RNC disguised as personal letters–that wasn’t the point. The point was that each person sending the letter had the pure motive of getting out this fine message to the world.

Ooops–that’s not true either. The Inquirer this morning shows what was really behind the barrage of spam: the senders get prizes for signing and sending these letter. He’s got the screenshots to prove it.

Shooting down well-financed-fakers is exactly the kind of stuff we all hoped the Internet would help us do. Woo hoo!

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