I’m kind of surprised at the absence of Scientology from the article. They pioneered slander sites in the early millennium in order to attack their critics, and

I’m kind of surprised at the absence of Scientology from the article. They pioneered slander sites in the early millennium in order to attack their critics, and they had excellent SEO-fu that would usually make the slander sites rank higher than the target’s own site. Because they have branched out into other businesses to bring in money, upon seeing the title of this article I half-expected them to be offering services to third parties in this vein, too.