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A parasite SEO operation comes for an Oregon newspaper.

The Ashland Daily Tidings, a shuttered paper, rose from the dead in 2023 and once again began pumping out local stories. But all is not as it seems: the stories appear to rip off other articles, and the supposed authors have nothing to do with the operation.

Oregon Public Broadcasting untangled the parasite SEO scheme that took over a local newspaper.

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