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In order to increase its revenue, Elevation Partners, via Forbes implemented the TRAJECTORY OF A RUMOR campaign.  Elevation Partners replaced Forbes Staff writers and hired sophisticated smear campaigns by calling these digital assassins, 'Contributors', backed by fake investigatory articles, backed by doctored documents or documents taken out of context, and disinformation against Brands either in competition with Elevation Partners or who canceled, refused or cut back on advertising.

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Forbes also employed Silent Slashers which attacked employees and executives of their targets companies with anonymous posters online, with comments about the targeted women with enough frequency that the rants with outrageous lies and other verbal ejaculations about the supposed sex lives or calling them "rat-faced Jews" trying to hide an air or parody when in reality the target was to create enough keywords that were ugly so that the executives were not only defamed but unable to find new employment thereby forcing the competeting brands out of business.

What happens next Forbes realized it was time to sell and by the time the cabal of contributors, hackers that created the 'trajectory of a rumor' campaign will be gone and the new purchaser left to defend the crimes of Forbes and defending Internet Free Speech.

To my disbelief, when Elevation Partners bought into Forbes Media we were instructed to of disseminating FALSE information about brands that competed against the FORBES portfolio companies of Elevation Partners and other executives personal investment portfolio. From I saw and have concluded is that Elevation Partners d/b/a Forbes Media and Forbes.com is attempting to gain competitive advantage by allowing Elevation Partners to post and destroy brands that compete against their portfolio.

Forbes calls these new 'brand' hit-men 'contributors. I call them 'modern day snake oil salesmen.'

Forbes Media in bed with a venture capital firm now has 'incentive-based entrepreneurial journalism'. Destroy a brand which is competing with a personal investment of Forbes or Elevation partners, get your incentive. Or, write a 'puff' piece and increase the value of the Forbes / Elevation Partners portfolio, get your incentive, I believe is called propoganda.The facts don't matter to Adam Tanner. Adam Tanners' a cheer leader. He's a clapping seal. Somebody give him a ball so he can balance it on his nose.Tanner called me boasting he was doing research for Harvard University and reporter for Forbes. Being that I am a corporate advocacy member, he said he wanted to ask my feelings and experience with RR and the Corporate Adavocacy Program. Negative reviews are a busines owners worst nightmare. I did not like Mr. Magedson or his website. The reports on my business were true but we were barely surviving and I felt like the reports were unfair because we were not making much of a profit, and I felt these people were taking money out of my kids mouths.

It pissed me off but finally after speaking with two other CAP members I joined the program. The other member bragged about how much their businesses increased after joining the program, and it was true. Within months we began making a consistent and growing profit. All the people who stayed away because of Ripoff Report now clicked on the same link but read about how we changed the former problems. Better yet, Ed went so far above and beyond for us. Many of the reports on us were filed anonymously. After we joined the program, Ed suggested we offer a free dinner to any of our anonymous posters if they came and introduced themselves, and we met two of the past anonymous posters, once we spoke, they refer us so much business. Tanner was told all of this and more but it never made it to the article. Instead he spent nearly 45 minutes telling me horrible things about RR and Ed personally. He told me he would highlight my business in the article, and that a mention on Forbes woud be more valuable that the Corporate Advocacy program. After reading this report, I now see this is about paid shills increasing profits for their wealthy buddies.