Obamacare Facebook page full of astroturfed comments

Astroturfing, the process of fabricating artificial grassroots movements, is a propaganda black art that was perfected by David Axelrod, the architect of the political rise of Barack Obama.  Though no longer a White House advisor, Axelrod’s art is being actively employed to create false impressions of support for Obamacare on the official Obamacare Facebook page. Kelly Riddell writes in the Washington Times: Sixty percent of the site’s 226,838 comments generated from September 2012 to early last month can be attributed to fewer than 100 unique profiles, according to an analysis completed by The Washington Times with assistance from an outside data analytics team. Many of those profiles belong to just one person who created multiple aliases or personas to widen her influence and multiply her voice. Cindi Huynh, an Obamacare supporter in California, posted on average 59 times a day on the site in 60 days, making her the No. 1...(Read Full Post)