Astroturfing

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Concept.png Astroturfing Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Typepropaganda
Interest ofHBGary
Rolling out of fake grassroots movements

 

Examples

Page nameDescription
38 DegreesBritish Avaaz.
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest"nonprofit, non-partisan" big pharma astroturf
Conservative Inc."Big Con enforce the guidelines of Big Tech and punish conservatives on their behalf"
Patriot FrontAmerican white nationalist group that bears many hallmarks of an FBI entrapment operation, setting the stage for a false flag terrorism event
Sock puppetA person or online persona whose actions are controlled by somebody else.
TiananmenA Chinese mass protest in hundreds of cities turned violent. Questions remain about the sequence of events, CIA involvement and the scope of the aftermath after a media blackout occurred as media were mentioning threats of civil war to be increasing. Chinese media banned the mentioning of the event entirely, while atrocity stories are trotted out regularly by Western corporate media to maintain an enemy image.

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Not All Propaganda is EqualArticle30 May 2012Barrett Brown

 

An official example

Name
Best for Britain
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