Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Paid Protest Firm ‘Crowds On Demand’ Sued in $23 Million Extortion Plot Threatening Harassment and Defamation



Crowds On Demand (COD), a firm that provides paid protesters to feign outrage or fake support, is being sued by a Czech investor who claims a business rival hired the company to run a smear campaign against him involving a staged protest at his home, spreading misinformation about him, and organizing a phone and email campaign, urging the Aspen Institute and Dartmouth College to cut ties with him.  He says the business rival threatened to ramp up the Crowds On Demand smear campaign unless the Czech investor paid $23 million.

Crowds on Demand now is accused of being involved in the extortion the investor and threatening him with further harassment and defamation.  The company boasts on its website that it was hired by a business rival to “cripple the operations” of a manufacturing business owned by a convicted child molester, which resulted in the rival company buying the molester-owned business for “5 percent of its previous value.” -GEG...continue article here

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