AstroTurfing
From Techrights
AstroTurfing is the practice by which a company pretends to have a following but actually fakes it.
Posts on the subject:
- Consumer Watchdog (AstroTurfing Group)
- Astroturfing Examples: Learning How Microsoft Tames the Internet
Contents |
2007
2008
- Beware the OOXML AstroTurfer: “The Wraith”, “multivac1”, “hAl”, Among Other Nyms
- Microsoft May Have Bribed India for OOXML Pressure
- Microsoft Has Been Rigging Votes/Polls for Ages
- LawMedia Group May be Another Confirmed Microsoft AstroTurfing Agency
- The Microsoft Connection with Dewey Square Group and DCI/New Media
- Microsoft ‘Bribes’ Mac Bloggers to Slam Apple, Gartner Hosts Google FUD
- Microsoft, TCS, DCI, Edelman, and Those Fake Letters About IP/SCO/Monopoly
- James Plamondon: Microsoft Guerrilla
- FullSIX and Mr. Youth LLC May Be Ruining the Web (AstroTurfing) on Microsoft’s Behalf
- Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
- Waggener Edstrom, Maureen O’Gara and Other Microsoft Shills
- Partial Index: Summary of Bribed Sites, Journalists, and Bloggers (Vista 7)
- Waggener-Edstrom Behind the 2008 Laptop Bribes, Edelman Behind 2006’s
- Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This
- Respecting AstroTurfers?
- Some New (But Very Old) Microsoft AstroTurfing Examples
- Joe Barr, Linux.com Editor - My Obituary
- Joe Barr Knew Microsoft’s Tactics All Too Well
- Microsoft/Munchkin ‘Breaks’ the Web to Break Open Document Standards (Again)
- Rob Enderle Guarantees “Amazing Numbers”, Show E-mails to Microsoft
2009
- Gary M. Stewart (aka “Flatfish”) About Microsoft AstroTurfing: “It’s made me A LOT of money….
- 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness
- Another AstroTurf Scam Exposed?
2010
- New AstroTurfing from Microsoft Philippines, Increased Pressure on Businesses
- AstroTurfing for Vista 7 Still Alive
- Microsoft MVPs Nymshifting, Pretending to be Other Gender, Accepting Bribes, and Libeling GNU/Linux Users
- Microsoft PR Presented as ‘News’
- Microsoft Partners Hail Microsoft Without Disclosure, More AstroTurfing
- Apple Lies About “Open Source” (and More on Apple/Microsoft AstroTurfing)
- Microsoft AstroTurf May be Linked to the Notorious “Dr. Evil” (Richard Berman) or Grassroots Enterprise
- How Microsoft/Proprietary Software Bullies Ruined Digg for GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Employees Push Vista Phone 7 {sic} in Twitter, Without Disclosure
2011
- The Partly Microsoft-Owned Facebook is Doing Microsoft’s Dirty Job With Microsoft’s PR Firm
- Microsoft and Nokia Caught AstroTurfing, Abusing/Attacking Genuine Posters
2012
- Apple Whitewashing With Anti-Google AstroTurf Firm
- Microsoft is AstroTurfing for Vista 8
- Vista 8 AstroTurfing Not Enough, Other Tactics Used
2013
- Microsoft Crime Persists: AstroTurfing a Regular Practice, Reddit Full of Paid Microsoft AstroTurfers
- Microsoft Talking Points Planted by Microsoft Staff in the Geek Press
- John Dvorak Complains About Microsoft AstroTurfing Intended to Shape Vista 8 Perceptions
- Microsoft Takes AstroTurfing to New Levels, Co-opting Grassroots and Bribing People
2014
- Microsoft Caught AstroTurfing Again, But Is Criminal Prosecution Imminent? (Unlikely)
- Federal Trade Commission Should Launch Legal Action Against Microsoft Over Bribes to Bloggers in Exchange for Coverage
2015
2022
Other related pages:
This list is very incomplete, but some of the above cross-references other examples.
