[Ads-l] New to me: "astroturfing"

[Wilson Gray]

But the UD has it from 2008:

"the act of creating a small organization and making it appear to represent
something popular for the purpose of promoting a particular entity, cause,
etc. (a play on "grassroots" in the sense of a popular movement originating
among the common people, ultimately from AstroTurf, a brand of artificial
grass)"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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