No snaps for Boing Boing over Claria stuff-up

Boing Boing is under fire for failing to correct a report from author Cory Doctorow that Microsoft had acquired spyware firm Claria (formerly Gator) and had moved to downgrade the status of Claria’s software in Microsoft’s anti-spyware utility as a consequence.

Ed Bott colorfully writes that Boing Boing’s use of the post as “a spike in the end zone in the Ultimate Fantasy Bowl”.

Boing Boing has posted a correction here, but left the orginial piece online without correction.

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