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Astroturfing

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Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by a grassroots participant(s). [1]

85 relations: Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom), Al Jazeera, Americans for Technology Leadership, Anti-environmentalism, Ask.com, AstroTurf, Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Consumer Law, Barack Obama, Blog, Burson-Marsteller, Business ethics, Cabinet of Israel, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, Crowds on Demand, Democratic Party (United States), Disposable cup, Edelman (firm), Eric Schneiderman, European Privacy Association, European Union, Fahrenheit 9/11, Federal Trade Commission, Fidelity Communications, Filippo Menczer, Finland, Front organization, George Monbiot, George W. Bush, Google, Government of China, Government-organized non-governmental organization, Grassroots, Groupthink, HBGary, Hydraulic fracturing, Indiana University, Internet activism, Internet troll, Internet Water Army, Israel, ITunes, Julius Caesar (play), Labour Party (UK), Letter to the editor, Lloyd Bentsen, Lobbying, Michael Moore, ..., Microsoft, MoveOn, Municipal broadband, National Smokers Alliance, Ntrepid, Operation Earnest Voice, Paper cup, Philip Morris USA, Philip N. Howard, Politico, Politics of Russia, Public affairs industry, Public relations, Shill, Sockpuppet (Internet), Sponsor (commercial), State-sponsored Internet propaganda, Tea Party movement, Texas, The Guardian, The New York Times, Think tank, Twitter, Ukraine, Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005, United Kingdom, United States Air Force, United States Senate, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Walmart, West Plains, Missouri, Western world, William Shakespeare, Working Families for Walmart, 50 Cent Party. Expand index (35 more) »

Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom.

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

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Americans for Technology Leadership

Americans for Technology Leadership is a coalition of technology professionals, companies and organizations that advocates limited government regulation of technology.

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Anti-environmentalism

Anti-environmentalism refers to the way that various groups in society have sought to counter the effects of environmental ideology and movements, to redirect and diminish public concern about the environment, to attack left-leaning environmentalists, and to persuade politicians against increased environmental regulation.

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Ask.com

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

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AstroTurf

AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent authority of the Australian government.

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Australian Consumer Law

The Australian Consumer Laws (ACL), being to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, is uniform legislation for consumer protection, applying as a law of the Commonwealth of Australia and is incorporated into the law of each of Australia's states and territories.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Burson-Marsteller

Burson-Marsteller is a global public relations and communications firm headquartered in New York City.

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Business ethics

Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment.

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Cabinet of Israel

The Government of Israel (officially: ממשלת ישראל Memshelet Yisrael) exercises executive authority in the State of Israel.

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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is an independent, non-profit, bipartisan public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. that addresses federal budget and fiscal issues.

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Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008

The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 is a statutory instrument in the United Kingdom made under the European Communities Act 1972.

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Crowds on Demand

Crowds on Demand is an American publicity firm that provides clients with hired actors to pose as fans, paparazzi, security guards, and professional paid protesters.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Disposable cup

A disposable cup is a type of tableware and disposable food packaging.

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Edelman (firm)

Edelman is an American public relations and marketing consultancy firm, founded by and named after Daniel Edelman.

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Eric Schneiderman

Eric Tradd Schneiderman (born December 31, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 65th Attorney General of New York from 2011 until his resignation in May 2018.

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European Privacy Association

The European Privacy Association (EPA) is a Brussels-based lobbying group, founded in 2009.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring filmmaker, director and political commentator Michael Moore.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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Fidelity Communications

Fidelity Communications is a telecommunications company in Missouri, United States which provides residential and business internet, television and phone services.

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Filippo Menczer

Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian professor of informatics and computer science who is the director at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a research unit of the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and a member lab of the Web Science Trust Network.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Front organization

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Government of China

The central government of the People's Republic of China is divided among several state organs.

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Government-organized non-governmental organization

A government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) is a non-governmental organization that was set up or sponsored by a government in order to further its political interests and mimic the civic groups and civil society at home, or promote its international or geopolitical interests abroad.

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Grassroots

A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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HBGary

HBGary is a subsidiary company of ManTech International, focused on technology security.

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Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Internet activism

Internet activism (also known as web activism, online activism, digital campaigning, digital activism, online organizing, electronic advocacy, cyberactivism, e-campaigning, and e-activism) is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences as well as coordination.

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Internet troll

In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

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Internet Water Army

On the Internet in the People's Republic of China, an Internet Water Army or Wangluo shuijun is a group of Internet ghostwriters paid to post online comments with particular content.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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ITunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Letter to the editor

A letter to the editor (sometimes abbreviated LTTE or LTE) is a letter sent to a publication about issues of concern from its readers.

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Lloyd Bentsen

Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term United States Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket.

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Lobbying

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

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Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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MoveOn

MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is an American progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee.

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Municipal broadband

Municipal broadband deployments are broadband Internet access services provided either fully or partially by local governments.

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National Smokers Alliance

The National Smoker's Alliance (NSA) was formed in 1993 to protest against U.S. anti-smoking legislation.

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Ntrepid

Ntrepid is an American software, hardware, and cyber security company, registered in Florida and based in Herndon, Virginia.

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Operation Earnest Voice

Operation Earnest Voice is an astroturfing campaign by the US government.

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Paper cup

A paper cup is a disposable cup made out of paper and often lined or coated with plastic or wax to prevent liquid from leaking out or soaking through the paper.

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Philip Morris USA

Philip Morris USA is the United States tobacco division of Altria Group.

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Philip N. Howard

Philip N. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality.

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Politico

Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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Politics of Russia

The politics of Russia (the Russian Federation) takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic.

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Public affairs industry

Public affairs generally refers to the building and development of relations between an organization and politicians, governments and other decision-makers.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.

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Shill

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.

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Sockpuppet (Internet)

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception.

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Sponsor (commercial)

Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

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State-sponsored Internet propaganda

State-sponsored internet sockpuppetry is a government's use of paid internet propagandists with the intention of swaying online opinion, undermining dissident communities, or changing the perception of what is the dominant view (often via astroturfing).

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Tea Party movement

The Tea Party movement is an American conservative movement within the Republican Party.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Think tank

A think tank, think factory or policy institute is a research institute/center and organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005

The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive regulates unfair business practices in EU law, as part of European consumer law.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

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West Plains, Missouri

West Plains is a city in Howell County, Missouri, United States.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Working Families for Walmart

Working Families for Walmart is an advocacy group formed by Walmart and the Edelman public relations firm on December 20, 2005.

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50 Cent Party

The 50 Cent Party, or 50 Cent Army, is the colloquial term for Internet commentators, hired by Chinese authorities in an attempt to manipulate public opinion to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

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