Source: Astroturfing – Wikipedia
See Also
- Crowds on Demand
- Front organization
- Greenwashing
- Government-organized non-governmental organization
- Internet activism
- Internet Water Army
- Pinkwashing
- Purplewashing
- Redwashing
- Shill
- State-sponsored internet sockpuppetry
- Whitewashing
There are techniques for detecting
Ratkiewicz, Jacob; Conover, Michael; Meiss, Mark; Gonçalves, Bruno; Snehal Patil; Alessandro Flammini; Filippo Menczer (July 17–21, 2011). “Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media”. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Menlo Park, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. ISBN978-1-57735-505-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 7, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2011.