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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slightly off-topic but is "astro-turfers" a more modern day "carpet-bagger"?

Is this a real term or just used here on DCUM?[/quote]

Astro-turf is a term that has been around for at least 15 years, since campaigns were first moving online.  It essentially means “fake grassroots.”  Like, political firms or campaigns mobilizing paid people and activists to show up at a School Board meeting and pretend that it’s just a regular parent with a concern rather than a political activist who heard these two books were causing a political firestorm in another district and decided to misrepresent them here in order to make the current SB look bad.  An astroturf campaign would be a coordinated effort to amplify this misinformation online over and over.  Like, posting here and pretending to be a regular parent who is concerned about “smut” in books rather than just people who hate the current SB, haven’t read the books, and are just repeating the same lines to make FCPS look bad.[/quote]

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