Blackberry Denies Involvement in Astroturfing Campaign Promoting BBM

Google Play full of identical 5-star reviews of the app

Reason Staff | 10.25.2013 1:10 PM

Blackberry has denied involvement in an astroturfing campaign for the BlackberryMessenger (BBM) Android app.

The Google Play store has been besieged by reviews for the app, which has already garnered 10 milliondownloads in under a week. However, oddly enough, most of them seem to say the same thing

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Blackberry Denies Involvement in Astroturfing Campaign Promoting BBM

Google Play full of identical 5-star reviews of the app

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