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OP is probably confusing it with "Manufacturing consent", a book by Noam Chomsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/

• pclmulqdq 4y ago
  Adapting it. "Manufacturing consent" is a good book on the phenomenon, but sounds kind of odd (given how we use the word "consent" today).
  • mejutoco 4y ago
    The word consent can be used in many contexts, not only sexual. I see nothing odd about it. Consensus is a different meaning. Going by how odd "a consensus" sounds I would simply assume the writer mixed both or misremembered, and I do not read further intent. Just my opinion.
    • pclmulqdq 4y ago
      Oh, I was the OP you are responding to. I don't like the words "manufacturing consent" to refer to astroturfing, mostly because of the link to sexual consent, but also because they lack precision (Chomsky's book talks a lot more about propaganda as a tool of "top-down" media rather than "bottom-up" media). A lot of other people who talk about the phenomenon also use "consensus" instead of "consent" when referring to specifically using social media this way. See also: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251234/manufacturing-consensus/ https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251234/manufacturing-...
      • mejutoco 4y ago
        Oh. In that case I must admit you know better what you intended to say :P