Pentagon contractor admits massive propaganda attacks against USA Today reporters after their critical reporting on Pentagon propaganda contractors

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5/24/12, "Pentagon contractor admits to propaganda campaign against USA Today journalists," Poynter.org, Jeff Sonderman

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USA Today reporter Tom Vanden Brook and editor Ray Locker both had complained of a number of fake online presences created in their names — fake websites, Facebook and Twitter accounts, a Wikipedia entry and “dozens of message board postings and blog comments” — after they reported critically on the military’s spending on propaganda contractors. A Pentagon official told the paper in April that all contractors denied involvement. Thursday, Gregory Korte reports that Camille Chidiac, the minority owner and former president of Leonie Industries,

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Related: GAO auditing Pentagon propaganda campaigns (USA Today)"

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