Astroturfing, Intent and Public Relations

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Biznology

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A venerable tradition in public relations is the grass-roots campaign. These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business. Yelp on Fake Reviews: We Filter 25% of Reviews for Being Suspicious.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

I haven’t at all since I left NMS in 2006 and I don’t even know if NMS continued doing it themselves since there was a lot of heat from the FTC and organizations like WOMMA, PRSA, and the lot to not astroturf or misrepresent oneself. If there was even a hint of “ Witch!

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