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...Astroturfing is a public-relations campaign that magnifies support for a cause through linked, fictitious accounts....
...Civil society activists and others involved with the campaign are concerned about the lack of transparency around the Home Office’s involvement, calling it “state-sponsored astroturfing”....
...Among other tactics, they instigated a false and fear-laden grass roots campaign (known as astroturfing in the trade) about the drug war, set up a Facebook page calling for the death of a student who asked...
...And many, but not all, of the accounts that retweeted her post had the hallmarks of “astroturfing”, a term for a fake grassroots campaign....
...And there’s a bunch of these, that they’re like ten people that keep orchestrating these kind of I would call them astroturfing fake campaigns to criticise this space....
...Chris DixonThere’s a set of these kind of the same critics that come over the studio deal, and there’s a bunch of these that they’re like ten people that keep orchestrating these kind of, I would call them astroturfing...
...activities and running industry-backed pro-fossil fuel campaigns with names that made it look like grassroots initiatives supporting the interests of concerned citizens (an aggressive lobbying tactic known as “astroturfing...
...This “astroturfing” is aimed less at changing individual minds than at making useful idiots of those who imagine they are in touch with grassroots opinion....
...This lobbying industry phenomenon is known as “astroturfing”. In the US, Mr Mueller’s access to lobbyist Paul Manafort’s bank accounts appears to have led him to discover the EU links....
...activities, she says, include: trolling (people who use threatening behaviour against opponents to deter them expressing conflicting views); “sock puppets” (accounts set up to hide users’ identities); and “astroturfing...
...Twitter has also been affected by “astroturfing” — the simulation of grass-roots opinion....
...Sir, The article “Astroturfing takes root” (Analysis, June 27) by James Fontanella-Khan offensively defined the European Privacy Association as an example of an “astroturfing” organisation, used tendentious...
...Aggressive lobbying tactics, including “astroturfing” – setting up what is essentially a fake grass-roots interest group – are commonplace in Washington, the capital of corporate lobbying....
...The practice of preparing or disseminating a deceptive review that a reasonable consumer would believe to be a true is a form of false advertising known as “astroturfing.”...
...After beginning its investigation in September 2011, TripAdvisor is the first case where the ASA has tackled so-called “astroturfing”, where paid advocates post online content that gives the appearance of...
...An internal Wikipedia investigation found that 19 accounts, traced to Bell Pottinger’s offices, had been using fake identities to edit pages, in a process known as “astroturfing”, because it misleadingly...
...Nor has there yet been a test case on user-generated content, where Mr Parker is concerned about “astroturfing” – fake praise dressed up as genuine consumer recommendations....
...But Reverb has faced scrutiny for allegedly writing undisclosed positive reviews, or so called “astroturfing”, before....
...That is especially true when online word-of-mouth and social-media advertising are growing in importance and have produced their own unappealing practices, such as “astroturfing”, when a company fakes grassroots...
...But detractors – and there are many among liberals in particular – accuse it of “Astroturfing”, or faking its grassroots, saying it is a front for big business opposed to Obama administration reforms....
...The new focus on transparency in online advertising comes after several companies have been exposed for “astroturfing”, or creating fake grassroots campaigns, and as advertisers race to spread word of their...
...It was also a prime example of “Astroturfing”, the unsavoury marketing practice of generating fake grassroots enthusiasm for a product....
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