Digg continues to battle phony stories
Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted a story about a company that offered to compensate him.
“I receive two or three offers (from marketers) a week to promote some product or service,” Yergaliyev, 19, said in an interview with CNET News.com. “I never do it, but the week JetNumbers asked me I met this girl and I was really happy with life. I wanted to help anybody.” JetNumbers provides virtual local phone numbers in more than 30 countries. Nathan Schorr, JetNumbers’ business development manager, said that when he first approached Yergaliyev, who is known at Digg as “Supernova17,” he mentioned that his company was willing to compensate the teen financially and give him free phone minutes using JetNumbers’ system. Schorr said Yergaliyev turned down the cash.
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