Amazon's Fake Blogger Now Real?
from the amazing-reappearance-act dept
This one is odd. Two weeks ago we had the story of how Amazon's employee "working at Amazon.com" blog was fake and was just a recruiting tool put together by Amazon's marketing department. They even quoted someone from Amazon saying: "Without going into whether the content is factually accurate or not, what I can tell you is that it was not an individual's personal blog. It was a recruiting message that we put in the form of a blog to experiment." Now, however, it looks like they may have been lying about that as well. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now claiming that the mysterious Amazon blogger is real and even has his own personal blog. So, maybe I'm confused, but why would Amazon's spokesperson say that it wasn't a real blog, when it turned out it actually was? Under what circumstances would that be the better answer?
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