#Astroturfing

Nicole Perlroth

Someone on Reddit figured out that all the "re-open the economy" websites were created on the same day by the same guy in Jacksonville, FL. http://reddit.com/r/maryland/com …This is an astroturfing campaign.

Interesting that all those #REOPEN websites and FB groups were all started at roughly the same time using the same language in their descriptions.https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/ #astr

Data traffic around #Louisville is interesting:176 "botlike" red79 orange80 yellow221 green375 "human like" blueRemember, "botlike" does not mean it is a definitely bot, so caution on calling "bot" at

zarine kharazian

New: here's @DFRLab's full readout on online traffic manipulation in the #Azerbaijan - #Armenia Twitter feud. https://medium.com/dfrlab/patriotic-astroturfing-in-the-azerbaijan-armenia-twitter-war-9d234206cdd7The renewed tensions br

I’m not a twitter thread guy but this definitely needs more attention: The blatant astroturfing of the Reopen America (or Gridlock) movement and the clear ways Americans are being manipulated.

Erika Johnston #StopDividingUs

operabinoculars

Same grid girl tactic being used by the #Scamdemics last Saturday in London as by Brexit Party last year! Honey traps to make the cause look younger and more aspirational

Bill Humphrey 🦊

Whenever some new dark money national astroturfing signage campaign drops – like the last time there was a new Democratic President – you end up having to spend a bunch

1. People confuse percent (%) with total numbers a lot when it comes to politics since politics are a numbers game and based on optics. 2. For instance the ICE

I've been thinking about the LIBERATE protests completely the wrong way. The point of astroturfing these things is not to fire up / motivate GOP base. 1/https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1253027810685464581 They're designed to

A couple thoughts on the quarantine... I've seen outrage at people hoarding supplies. I've seen outrage at people protesting who want the economy to reopen. I think both of these

Robert Perry (Pez)

This is a really interesting thread, mainly because I can’t decide if the writer really believes what he’s saying, is jumping to conclusions from a few points of data, or

McMaster Librarians

Let's be real: $700k is peanuts. What's that, like a half-dozen cops? The real issue is priorities, and Council's track record of financial acumen is piss-poor. Why strategically invest money

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So this account @/TCDFF was set up in the last day, claiming to be a "grassroots Irish anti GRA campaign", and it frankly screams TERF astroturfing. For starts, It's already

Camille François

camillefrancois

In 2017, @fightfortheftr and others exposed a large anti-net neutrality astroturfing campaign targeting rulemakers and the FCC, and flooding the FCC’s public consultation with fake comments. Yesterday, the NYAG published

S. Leser & Frères

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