May 27, 2011 1 min read

Facebook Gets Caught Going After Google

Facebook recently got caught hiring a PR firm to push stories about a Google social feature that Facebook thought was too deep an invasion of privacy.

The ploy backfired on the social networking giant and its PR firm.

Catch a flavor of the story with these posts (Getting Caught, Getting Caught Covering Up) from my fellow Epicenter writer, Sam Gustin.

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