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From the NY Times Magazine

From the NY Times Magazine today comes The Secret Agents of Capitalism Are All Around Us, an article on undercover marketing. Basically, marketing companies send people out into places where “key influencers” hang out to talk loudly about their clients’ products and services. Here’s the company the article refers to. (Sounds like a bunch of shills at a game of Three-Card Monte.)