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Astroturfing is a clever way of describing corporate-sponsored grassroots movements. Get it? It is not real grass? Anyway, the point is that some of the protests or ads you see are not actually protests, they are bought and paid for by corporations. These protests or ads are either entirely secret or run under names of fake citizens groups. This is doubly dangerous, not only because our democracy is at stake but also because accusations of astroturfing can ruin actual movements.

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