Thursday, March 6, 2008

Astroturfing

Learn something new every single day around here. 

We learned that Russell is manipulating the poll - every time she finds a new computer, she votes again for Sweetser. In the PR world this is astroturfing - a fake grassroots uprising. 

Go figure.
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2 comments:

Janice Hume said...

And there was something about finger puppets, too. I was so upset over the concept of astroturfing that I blocked out the whole thing...

March 6, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Karen Miller Russell said...

That would be a sockpuppet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet

March 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM

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