Usually means: Creating fake grassroots support online.
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  1. astroturfing: Merriam-Webster
  2. astroturfing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. astroturfing: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Astroturfing, astroturfing: Wiktionary
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  7. Astroturfing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. astroturfing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  9. astroturfing: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (astroturfing)

noun:  (originally US politics, now social media, marketing) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

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