How PRWeb Pollutes The Web

    If you're not in the media, you'd probably never heard of PRWeb until yesterday, when it distributed a hoax press release about a $400 million Google acquisition. The service claims it slipped through the cracks, but Danny Sullivan shows just how untrue that is — and how PRWeb spam pollutes more of the web than you'd realize, including newspaper websites.

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    How PRWeb Pollutes The Web

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    If you're not in the media, you'd probably never heard of PRWeb until yesterday, when it distributed a hoax press release about a $400 million Google acquisition. The service claims it slipped through the cracks, but Danny Sullivan shows just how untrue that is — and how PRWeb spam pollutes more of the web than you'd realize, including newspaper websites.