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AstroTurfing

Category:Astroturfing Category:Propaganda AstroTurfing is the practice by which a company pretends to have a following but actually fakes it.

Posts on the subject:
  • Consumer Watchdog (AstroTurfing Group)
  • Astroturfing Examples: Learning How Microsoft Tames the Internet


    • 2007

  • Manipulation, Astroturfing, and What Governments Can Do


    • 2008

  • Beware the OOXML AstroTurfer: “The Wraith”, “multivac1”, “hAl”, Among Other Nyms
  • Microsoft May Have Bribed India for OOXML Pressure
  • Microsoft Has Been Rigging Votes/Polls for Ages
  • LawMedia Group May be Another Confirmed Microsoft AstroTurfing Agency
  • The Microsoft Connection with Dewey Square Group and DCI/New Media
  • Microsoft ‘Bribes’ Mac Bloggers to Slam Apple, Gartner Hosts Google FUD
  • Microsoft, TCS, DCI, Edelman, and Those Fake Letters About IP/SCO/Monopoly
  • James Plamondon: Microsoft Guerrilla
  • FullSIX and Mr. Youth LLC May Be Ruining the Web (AstroTurfing) on Microsoft’s Behalf
  • Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
  • Waggener Edstrom, Maureen O’Gara and Other Microsoft Shills
  • Partial Index: Summary of Bribed Sites, Journalists, and Bloggers (Vista 7)
  • Waggener-Edstrom Behind the 2008 Laptop Bribes, Edelman Behind 2006’s
  • Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This
  • Respecting AstroTurfers?
  • Some New (But Very Old) Microsoft AstroTurfing Examples
  • Joe Barr, Linux.com Editor - My Obituary
  • Joe Barr Knew Microsoft’s Tactics All Too Well
  • Microsoft/Munchkin ‘Breaks’ the Web to Break Open Document Standards (Again)
  • Rob Enderle Guarantees “Amazing Numbers”, Show E-mails to Microsoft


    • 2009

  • Gary M. Stewart (aka “Flatfish”) About Microsoft AstroTurfing: “It’s made me A LOT of money….
  • 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness
  • Another AstroTurf Scam Exposed?


    • 2010

  • New AstroTurfing from Microsoft Philippines, Increased Pressure on Businesses
  • AstroTurfing for Vista 7 Still Alive
  • Microsoft MVPs Nymshifting, Pretending to be Other Gender, Accepting Bribes, and Libeling GNU/Linux Users
  • Microsoft PR Presented as ‘News’
  • Microsoft Partners Hail Microsoft Without Disclosure, More AstroTurfing
  • Apple Lies About “Open Source” (and More on Apple/Microsoft AstroTurfing)
  • Microsoft AstroTurf May be Linked to the Notorious “Dr. Evil” (Richard Berman) or Grassroots Enterprise
  • How Microsoft/Proprietary Software Bullies Ruined Digg for GNU/Linux
  • Microsoft Employees Push Vista Phone 7 {sic} in Twitter, Without Disclosure


    • 2011

  • The Partly Microsoft-Owned Facebook is Doing Microsoft’s Dirty Job With Microsoft’s PR Firm
  • Microsoft and Nokia Caught AstroTurfing, Abusing/Attacking Genuine Posters


    • 2012

  • Apple Whitewashing With Anti-Google AstroTurf Firm
  • Microsoft is AstroTurfing for Vista 8
  • Vista 8 AstroTurfing Not Enough, Other Tactics Used


    • 2013

  • Microsoft Crime Persists: AstroTurfing a Regular Practice, Reddit Full of Paid Microsoft AstroTurfers
  • Microsoft Talking Points Planted by Microsoft Staff in the Geek Press
  • John Dvorak Complains About Microsoft AstroTurfing Intended to Shape Vista 8 Perceptions
  • Microsoft Takes AstroTurfing to New Levels, Co-opting Grassroots and Bribing People


    • 2014

  • Microsoft Caught AstroTurfing Again, But Is Criminal Prosecution Imminent? (Unlikely)
  • Federal Trade Commission Should Launch Legal Action Against Microsoft Over Bribes to Bloggers in Exchange for Coverage


    • 2015

  • Caution Needed When Microsoft Copywriters Flood the Media With Microsoft Propaganda


    • 2022

  • Microsoft AstroTurfing: GitHub's First Puppet CEO May Be Violating Wikipedia Rules With Reputation Laundering by Proxy (Hiding the Serial Strangler From Microsoft/GitHub)


    • Other related pages:

  • Plamondon on schmoozing the Computing Society


    • This list is very incomplete, but some of the above cross-references other examples.