Talk:Astroturfing#rfc 1C00B45

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Hello, sorry there has not been a discussion opened on this before. The sources do not confirm the "astroturf" nature of Jexodus. Please find sources which can support this assertion before considering its addition here. I am confident that there are plenty of political astroturfing examples that are more robust and well-documented that could be put in its stead. Thank you. 2600:8800:1880:FC:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 07:27, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

:From the Esquire ref (currently ref #55): {{tq|Jewish people supposedly leaving the Democratic Party—a "Jexodus" that invokes "Blexit" and "#Walkaway," in that they are social-media campaigns that smell strongly of astroturf}} and the Times of Israel ref (currently ref #56): {{tq|Further making clear that this is likely a clumsy astroturf effort rather than an actual grassroots movement is the fact that the Jexodus.org website was registered all the way back on November 5, 2018, before Ilhan Omar and others being accused of anti-Semitism had even been voted in, let alone entered Congress.}} But since you asked so nicely, I've added an additional ref to GQ (currently ref #54): {{tq|it’s an operation entirely engineered by conservative flacks, doing its best to masquerade as an authentic grassroots movement}}, which almost exactly matches the definition of astroturfing in the first sentence of the lede in this Wikipedia article. Mojoworker (talk) 18:52, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

I have no data to support this, but I suspect that a percentage of memes which appear to be the work, often (deliberately?) clumsy, of ‘civilians’, are in fact astroturfing efforts. --2001:44B8:3102:BB00:D8BD:B78:CA71:AFC2 (talk) 09:04, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

:Me too. jp×g 10:18, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

‘The authors argued that astroturfing that is "purposefully designed to fulfill corporate agendas, manipulate public opinion and harm scientific research represents a serious lapse in ethical conduct."

They actually used the word ‘purposefully’ instead of ‘purposely’? I would have corrected this, had it been part of the article’s text.

My trust in the content of any written work diminishes in proportion to the sloppiness of its prose. --2001:44B8:3102:BB00:D8BD:B78:CA71:AFC2 (talk) 09:32, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

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