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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by austhrow743 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:34PM (#38006620)
People taking it upon themselves to talk up a brand is the opposite of astroturfing, not pseudo-astroturfing.
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by BoorishBears on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:41PM (#38008111)
When you're indirectly related to the brand and that's affecting your eagerness, it's something akin to astroturfing in why astroturfing is looked down on: ie. you're biased

But it doesn't have the malice/intent of astroturfing.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by joemi on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:20PM (#38019089)
Everyone is biased. There are no perfectly unbiased opinions. And "having a bias" is not the same thing as astroturfing.
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