1. Definición y Naturaleza Engañosa del Astroturfing.
El astroturfing es una estrategia de relaciones públicas deshonesta que busca crear una percepción artificial de apoyo popular o de base para una causa, cuando en realidad está orquestada y financiada por intereses corporativos o grupos ocultos, a menudo vinculados a la industria de los combustibles fósiles.
- Pay attention auspol astroturfing - its trying to trick and deceive people into believing that there is more support for fossil fuel than there actually is.
- Ie creating a false impression of grassroots support for a cause or organization, often orchestrated by a hidden group or corporation . Be aware, some dubious push against some our candidates greens teals ie wentworth. Better .not.
- A political communications expert has described the pro-gas groups activities as a textbook example of astroturfing a public relations strategy in which vested interests set up an artificial grassroots organisation to influence public opinion about an industry or issue.
- Astroturfing might not be illegal but it is certainly dishonest.
2. Grupos de Fachada y Conexiones con la Industria y la Política.
El análisis identifica a "Australians for Natural Gas" y "Advance Australia" como ejemplos prominentes de organizaciones de astroturfing. Estos grupos están estrechamente vinculados a ejecutivos de gas, lobistas, el Partido Liberal (LNP) y la red internacional de think tanks de derecha, Atlas Network, operando con "dinero oscuro" (dark money).
- Its those fucking astroturfing bastards advance australia, funded by the american christofascist heritage foundation and their atlas network.
- Australians for natural gas is an astroturfing group with links to the mining sector, lobbyists and the liberal party join-the-dots.infogroups3767.
- Australians for natural gas revealed as a front for tamboran - a foreign fracking company harming the nt water table planning emissions equivalent to putting 30 million extra cars on the road. This is astroturfing 101 fake community, real pollution.
- The coalitions internal pollster is helping orchestrate a campaign to boost public support for the gas industry ahead of the federal election in what has been described as textbook astroturfing.
- Advance australia australians for prosperity are not real community interest groups. They are fake fronts for the coalition, funded by donors like gina fossil fuel lobbies. Its astroturfing.
3. Ataque a las Energías Renovables y la Política Climática.
Una de las principales áreas de enfoque del astroturfing es la oposición a la energía renovable, incluyendo parques eólicos (especialmente offshore) y solares, a menudo utilizando desinformación para inflamar el sentimiento NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) y promover alternativas como el gas y la energía nuclear.
- Yep. The whole anti-renewables thing is astroturfing . Having purchased the nats and good of the libs .
- This dodgy af astroturfing scheme trying to discredit offshore wind turbines - dig deep enough and i reckon we can all guess whos behind it. Auspol.
- Come on abc, local concerns on wind turbines is fossil fuelconservative politics astroturfing. These anti-wind campaigns are deliberately spreading misinformation to communities.
- The anti-wind movement is an elaborate fossil fuel propaganda and astroturfing campaign run by the atlasnetwork across the us east coast and extended here by atlas folk like alan moran and burchell wilson.
- I strongly suspect that we planet australia is an astroturfing movement promoting nuclear energy. There is little information about them online.
4. Impacto Social y Demandas de Transparencia.
Las campañas de astroturfing han sido acusadas de inflamar la división comunitaria, el acoso y la intimidación, lo que ha motivado una investigación del Senado australiano sobre la desinformación climática. Existe una fuerte demanda de leyes más estrictas sobre la verdad en la publicidad política y la transparencia en la financiación.
- Bullying, harassment, intimidation inquiry told astroturfing inflaming division over renewables in australia, and fostering community division.
- New adms submission research ahead of the 2025 federal election reveals astroturfing is mainstream in climate energy debates. Calls for stronger laws, transparency platform accountability to protect democracy.
- The australian competition and consumer commission have been asked to investigate fossil fuel lobby group australians for natural gas for engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct.
- What we need is criminalisation of astroturfing and other deliberate spreading of misinformation under false pretenses, with huge fines for corporatesorganisations and platforms that allow it, and jail for individuals involved. Civilisation depends on it.