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Re: by h2zizzle on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:26AM (#44246438)
Many people who post here are, were, or would like to be Googlers. Maybe not so much astroturfing ao much as a kind of corporate hasbara (though maybe both).
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Re: by thaumasiotes on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:53AM (#44248303)
> Maybe not so much astroturfing as much as a kind of corporate hasbara

What's the difference? In astroturfing, someone pays people to form an organization, claim to have no external support, and do some kind of activism.

In hasbara, the government of Israel pays people to not form an organization, claim to have no external support, and do various kinds of pro-Israel and pro-Jew activism. This looks like astroturfing with the major vulnerability of the no-external-support claim shored up.

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Re: by h2zizzle on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:12PM (#44249672)
Fair. The main difference is that people here don't like it when you call it astroturfing.
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