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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