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I'm not labeling his actions astroturfing because he's biased, I'm doing so because his bias is paid for and undisclosed. That's a textbook definition of both a
by jakelazaroff 8y ago
I'm not labeling his actions astroturfing because he's biased, I'm doing so because his bias is paid for and undisclosed. That's a textbook definition of both astroturfing and acting in bad faith. How is this different in any way from e.g. a company paying for reviews on Amazon, or a journalist writing a glowing article about a company without disclosing that they own stock in that company?
- jessriedel 8y ago> I'm not labeling his actions astroturfing because he's biased, I'm doing so because his bias is paid for... I understand that, but I'm arguing that the bias from financial incentives are just one form of bias. (That's why I said "or whatever".) I mean that it's not useful to divide the world up into no/negligible bias and bad/paid bias, regardless of what you call it. > ...and undisclosed. That's a textbook definition of both astroturfing and acting in bad faith. In fact, as stated in the article, the payments were disclosed. Do you have other reasons to think he's acting in bad faith, or just your mistaken belief that the payments were undisclosed?
- jakelazaroff 8y agoWhoops, I missed that part! I agree with you, then: he's not acting in bad faith.