5 stories tagged astroturfing, newest first.
80 points by paimapi | 53 comments
A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.
255 points by p-s-v | 320 comments
A personal project post on petervijeh.com analyzing data on whether Reddit has an astroturfing problem with bots and advertisers posing as genuine commenters.
729 points by Liriel | 354 comments
An Awesome Agents investigation into the market for fake GitHub stars, how VCs treat star counts as traction, and an analysis of 20 repos showing signs of manipulation.
368 points by red-polygon | 65 comments
Hacker News text post alleging YC-backed IB test prep startup RevisionDojo runs astroturfing and fake review campaigns on Reddit targeting students.
711 points by RecycledEle | 256 comments
NY Attorney General press release announcing a $615,000 settlement with three companies that submitted fake comments impersonating Americans to influence the FCC's net neutrality repeal.