'Astroturfing'.Astroturfing Generating public excitement in a subject by posting anonymous comments to blogs, wikis and other public venues. See meat puppet. , as defined by the WikiPedia The world's largest encyclopedia available on the Web at www.wikipedia.com. Using wiki software, Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia in 2001. By the end of 2005, there were 1.8 million entries in more than 100 languages on every conceivable subject, written and edited by hundreds of thousands , (http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia) is "a campaign crafted by politicians or other professionals but carefully designed to appear like the result of popular feeling rather than manipulation. The astroturfing campaign attempts to gain legitimacy LEGITIMACY. The state of being born in wedlock; that is, in a lawful manner. 2. Marriage is considered by all civilized nations as the only source of legitimacy; the qualities of husband and wife must be possessed by the parents in order to make the offspring by appearing to spring forth spontaneously spontaneously Medtalk Without treatment from 'the people.' If the campaign is well executed, the planners hope that the public at large will believe that 'all of these independent viewpoints could not have been faked.'" |
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