I understand that this is "sponsoderd content" AKA an ad. I have seen "sponsored pages" in newspapers for many years about a lot of crap, is there a reason to consider this one worse than the average? (Yes, scientology is evil but they are not forbidden from making ads I reckon?) edit: the "sponsored" bit is right on top of the page, as it is in dead-tree-form newspapers too.
The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
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#102UPDATE: Mat Mullen, Disqus employee got a comment past the moderator (maybe he knows someone): This is the weirdest thing I've ever read on the Atlantic. You're actually letting the Church of Scientology sponsor content on your website?
His comment is now gone ... it was by far the most up-voted and I'm a bit shocked that Disqus is in collusion with The Atlantic.
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#103wasn't The Atlantic a reputable magazine?
[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/reddit-bans-atla...
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#104AFTER EDIT: For those of you who need to detox after seeing a Scientology puff piece on the Atlantic website, I recommend the Village Voice website, which has an extensive set of articles
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/scientology/
in a humorous but fact-checked manner on the inside story of Scientology.
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#105The Atlantic editorial team is not involved in the creation of this content. I imagine the editorial team are currently drinking a shit ton of whiskey praying that nobody associates them with this.
Haha ... I think you're probably correct, but I'll bet the writers who show up in the sidebar on the right need something a little stronger.
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#106http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-busi...
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#107Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#108So they're essentially letting Scientology use The Atlantic's "brand" to trick people into reading this? (Yes, I know it says Sponsored Post) This, on top of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108929 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-... makes me pretty weary of trusting anything I read on TheAtlantic ever again
I fear what will happen when the market for pure misinformation is fully realized. When it can be delivered as seamlessly as the real thing, the opportunity for profit is massive. The Atlantic is an example of media engineering for profit that fails to trick us -- but it is much closer than sponsored content has been in the past and certainly more effective at getting me to consume it than a regular ad. Call me a con…
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#109Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other interesting thing is that it seems to have -1 downvotes. Hax? Or a javascript bug?
Someone is trying to delete downvotes as fast as they can, except more votes are arriving even faster. Stare at the counter for a few minutes, and you'll see the vote count go up and down.