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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesステルスマーケティング
Pronunciation / Transliteration: suterusu māketingu
"ネットコミュニティにおける組織的な世論誘導はステルスマーケティングの一種である。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The deceptive practice of presenting orchestrated, corporate-, or government-sponsored campaigns as if they were spontaneous, grassroots movements of concerned citizens, often observed within online communities.
"The online forum was exposed for astroturfing after dozens of identical product reviews were posted by newly created accounts within the exact same hour." - 2
The creation of fake online communities or coordinated personas designed to manipulate public opinion on social media platforms.
"Regulators cracked down on political astroturfing campaigns that used automated bots to fake widespread grassroots support."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in the late 20th century as a play on 'Astroturf', a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass. The term combines 'AstroTurf' with 'turfing' to metaphorically describe artificially created grassroots campaigns or communities that appear to originate spontaneously from the public but are actually orchestrated by centralized entities.
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faux militantisme
Transliteration: fo militantizm
"Le scandale de faux militantisme a discrédité la campagne en ligne."
Astroturfing
Transliteration: Astroturfing
"Das Unternehmen wurde des Astroturfing überführt, um künstliche Nachfrage zu erzeugen."
finto movimento di base
Transliteration: finto movimento di base
"La campagna online si è rivelata essere un caso di finto movimento di base."
falso activismo
Transliteration: falso activismo
"El partido político fue acusado de utilizar falso activismo en las redes sociales."
falso movimento popular
Transliteration: falso movimento popular
"A estratégia de marketing foi identificada como um falso movimento popular."
कृत्रिम जनआंदोलन
Transliteration: kritrim janaandolan
"ऑनलाइन मंच पर चल रहा अभियान एक कृत्रिम जनआंदोलन साबित हुआ।"
虚假草根运动
Transliteration: xūjiǎ cǎogēn yùndòng
"这家公司因为在网络社群中进行虚假草根运动而受到批评。"
위장 풀뿌리 운동
Transliteration: wijang pulppuri undong
"그 커뮤니티의 여론 조작은 기업이 주도한 위장 풀뿌리 운동으로 밝혀졌습니다."
ステルスマーケティング
Transliteration: suterusu māketingu
"ネットコミュニティにおける組織的な世論誘導はステルスマーケティングの一種である。"
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