[IshKebab]

Uhm. What are you suggesting exactly? That Underwood somehow manipulated Huy Fong into screwing them over and then suing them, just so that they could get a good story out of it?

Do you think it's fabricated? You can read the exact same thing in the court judgement. It's barely any longer than the reddit comment.

[jakewins]

They are clearly suggesting that the story recurring every two months is Astro-turfed, not that the story itself is false?

[HelloMcFly]

It is a shame reddit lets people hide their post and comment history now so there can be no identifying signals about astro-turfing or bots. I'm sure this is ostensibly about preventing harassment, and in actuality about disguising bot behavior driving engagement. Or maybe I'm just extra cynical this morning.

[dts-five]

Just go to the profile in question and search their profile with an empty query; that'll show all the hidden comments and posts.

Edit: at least on the web variant, it looks like they finally blocked that ability.

[kotaKat]

IIRC you just have to use an asterisk or something now, and I think the search is broken on OldReddit…

[functionmouse]

Here I was foolishly thinking AstroTurf meant false grass

[stdbrouw]

Well, it implies that the "grassroots" element of it is fake, the message itself being false is optional.

[OJFord]

Huh, I didn't realise it was that specific, I thought it just meant/came from 'covering everything with crap'.