UC Davis Spent Thousands to Scrub Pepper-spray References from Internet

Apr 14, 2016

pepperspray UC Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.

The payments were made as the university was trying to boost its image online and were among several contracts issued following the pepper-spray incident.

Some payments were made in hopes of improving the results computer users obtained when searching for information about the university or Katehi, results that one consultant labeled “venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the chancellor.”

Read the full story via The Sacramento Bee.

UC Davis Spent Thousands to Scrub Pepper-spray References from Internet

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