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KoKo

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3. Many websites carry Sponsored News Stories designed to suck you in and

Reply to phantom power (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 7, 2013, 03:44 PM

Nov 2013

if you read quickly you won't notice they are written by Corporate Interests.

It's very stealthy the way the do it. Usually at the bottom of a news story not labeled as Advertising but eye-catching headlines.

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