Written by Again a problem with Facebook that reminds me more a high school joke than a 50 billion company behaviour.
Many sources, among them Ed Oswald at beta news (full article here) and Sharon Gaudin at Computerworld (full article here), report that “[...] Facebook found itself doing damage control Thursday after it was revealed the company had attempted to create negative press for Google. Two employees of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller had endeavored to pitch stories over the search giant’s privacy issues.
News of the botched effort was broken by The Daily Beast’s Dan Lyons on Wednesday night. Without specifying how, Lyons said evidence pointed to the social networking site as being the mysterious client of Burson-Marsteller’s, and the company admitted to doing so.
A spokesperson for Facebook said the company hired the firm in order to fight back against Google’s planned Social Circle, which uses some of Facebook’s data. In addition, it believes that the Mountain View, Calif. company’s efforts in social networking raise some privacy concerns. [...]“.
In love and business everything is admitted, but I think that especially if You have the kind of relevance Facebook has, a limit exists and cannot be exceeded.
Is the same old story told in security issues: a company should behave in a wise manner, either for ethics, either for investors.
And back talking others is for teens, not for IPOs.
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