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by samelawrence 4500 days ago
I'm not familiar with the term astroturf in this context. Explain?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Basically it's a play on "grass roots" movements. Powerful groups attempt to mimic grass roots, populist movements by hiring a bunch of employees to pose and regular people and write comments on forums, etc. And as you know, astroturf is fake grass.

One definition: "online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem." [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/fe...