GIZMODO - Aug 27 - According to Ashley Madison's internal emails, the company was actively paying people to create fake profiles. The company even had a shorthand for these fake profiles—"angels." On June 27, 2013, in an email thread with the subject line "how angels are made," Noel Biderman scolded some of his employees for failing to create a decent automated process for making angels. Is it possible that Biderman built a site hoping to attract women, but failed miserably, then tried to hide that fact by creating all those fake profiles? All the ads are aimed at men and it is not that easy to create an account on Ashley Madison if you're a woman.
by Annalee Newitz
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