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How companies manufacture grassroots support

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Nothing screams authenticity quite like a heavily funded corporate campaign pretending to be angry citizens. Astroturfing involves companies secretly funding fake grassroots movements to aggressively lobby for deregulation. It is an incredibly manipulative economic strategy where millions are spent to engineer the illusion of overwhelming public consensus.

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