Definition of "astroturfer" [astroturfer]

• One who engages in astroturfing—the disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event. (noun)

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• "I doubt the accused poster on the Brokaw thread is an "astroturfer"."
• "I look forward to ZDnet's damaging breakdown of the whole Microsoft "astroturfer" campaign, in which untold hundreds of people are paid from Microsoft coffers to masquerade as genuine Microsoft users, while they stream a constant flow of lies and deliberate pro-Microsoft, anti-Microsoft-competitor distortions to magazines and tech News web sites like ZDnet."
• "Are you for real or just another "astroturfer" spinning for Fairpoint."