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		viseztrance on April 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the... I hope they get sued for this, but I don't believe it's a conspiracy. Rather, just a case of someone trying too hard to meet certain sale expectations and hold on to a bonus.

coldtea on April 17, 2013 | [–]

That's the way conspiracies work.

What did you expect, aliens?

viseztrance on April 17, 2013 | | [–]

Samsung is a big company, I meant it's someone in their Taiwan branch rather than their Korea hq.

r00fus on April 17, 2013 | [–]

So was it a few bad actors, or just the few that got caught?

tonyedgecombe on April 18, 2013 | [–]

These things always go back to the top, it's cultural.

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