Astroturfing hides the financial and business associations between the originating company and the message, potentially making corporate messaging more palatable to a public that might reject forthright propaganda. The term "astroturfing" is a play on the term "grassroots movement," since the grass is fake. Astroturfing has been attempted by ... More @Wikipedia
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