by Jonesin9 March 27, 2019
So many company's astroturfing is hard to discern, so we must be that much more careful not to get fooled by it.
by Ereck Flowers August 17, 2018
faux-grassroots promotion, usually hiding a corporate advertising or marketing movement. May also cover corporate graffiti.
by Dancomono July 17, 2006
Political term that means pseudo-equal rights group or artifcial equal rights group. This groups or organizations tend to call them selves a organization that supports freedom and equality; however that is nothing more a backdrop for a biased unequal agenda.
Groups like Accuracy In Academia and Students for Academic Freedom are good exaples of Astroturf Groups. They put on the identity of being a organization that supports equality, but actually are trying to advance a political bias
Groups like Accuracy In Academia and Students for Academic Freedom are good exaples of Astroturf Groups. They put on the identity of being a organization that supports equality, but actually are trying to advance a political bias
by Bob_the_Patriot October 23, 2007
A group of people pretending to be friends with each other (mostly for show) to project an image of togetherness, popularity, social skills/lives, unity, or support for each other. Fake it til you make it and become a real puppet master is the motto of an astroturf creator that really seems to believe that the turf they claimed as their own is really theirs to claim, offer others, or burn down, cut down, or demolish if they don't get their way or dollar signs.
He/she must have come from a planet where astroturf grows wild, because since he/she got here, he/she put down lots of it.
by The Original Agahnim December 28, 2022
by Squidpward October 19, 2022