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DAVID MANNING MUZZLED

Sony Pictures is paying the price for last summer's faux critic scandal. Connecticut officials have fined the studio $325,000 for attributing fake movie reviews to a nonexistent film critic ("David Manning") at a Connecticut newspaper. Sony also has agreed to stop using ads in which company employees pose as moviegoers praising films.

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Sony Pictures is paying the price for last summer's faux critic scandal. Connecticut officials have fined the studio $325,000 for attributing fake movie reviews to a nonexistent film critic ("David Manning") at a Connecticut newspaper. Sony also has agreed to stop using ads in which company employees pose as moviegoers praising films.