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Attack of the Living Front Groups: PRWatch Offers Help to Unmask Corporate
Tricksters
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| Fake "grassroots" groups have started springing up like toadstools after a
| rain, and this time they're coming at us from every angle: they're on TV,
| Twitter, Facebook and YouTube: "Americans for Prosperity," "FACES of
| Coal, "The "Coalition to Protect Patients' Rights," "Americans Against Food
| Taxes," the "60 Plus Association," "Citizens for Better Medicare," "Patients
| First" ... It's making our heads spin! Issues affecting some of the country's
| biggest industries, like health insurance reform, a proposal to tax sodas
| and sugary drinks, and the FDA's possible reconsideration of the plastic
| additive Bisphenol A, have boosted corporate astroturfing up to a dizzying
| pace. With all these corporate fronts coming out of the woodwork, how can
| citizens tell true grassroots organizations from corporate fronts operated
| by highly-paid PR and lobbying firms? Here are some tips to help readers spot
| this kind of big-business hanky-panky.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8531
Unmasking Astroturf: Smear Campaigns Threaten Health Care and Net Neutrality
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| If you haven't been paying attention to the rise of Astroturf in Washington,
| in the media and at your local town hall meeting, now's the time to tune in.
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| Astroturf front groups have been everywhere this summer -- spreading
| misinformation about health care reform, carbon emission caps and financial
| regulation.
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| Astroturf shills, notably FreedomWorks' Dick Armey and Americans for
| Prosperity's Tim Phillips, surface wherever and whenever reform policies
| threaten the corporate or political status quo.
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http://www.alternet.org/media/142140/unmasking_astroturf:_smear_campaigns_threaten_health_care_and_net_neutrality/
Related:
Shameless Front Group Plans More Astroturf
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| After its public relations firm was outed for sending fake letters opposing
| the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill to members of Congress, the American Coalition
| for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is expanding its "grassroots" outreach.
| The coal industry front group "is launching a $1 million campaign" to secure
| more concessions for coal in the Senate version of the climate change bill.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8489
Microsoft puppets spamming ANSI
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| An impressive list of spam comments asking for supporting OOXML and
| backward compatibility, claiming also that "Open XML in no way
| contradicts any other international document standard". No really?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-11857/microsoft-puppets-spamming-ansi
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| In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing
| when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing
| disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its
| antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans
| for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from
| deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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