How the media hypes right-wing activist schemes into "movements"
A case study in how contemporary astroturfing actually works.
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In my last post I discussed how “astroturfing” is more than just a simple matter of rich people paying actors to feign support for a cause. If you want to know how wealthy interests misrepresent their agenda as more popular than it really is, you have…