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‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign | Semafor - Analysis (www.semafor.com)

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A Signal chat offers a rare glimpse inside the DeSantis campaign.

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[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the buried lede is that the official DeSantis campaign is directly coordinating with supposedly independent Twitter accounts. Nothing about the Right is organic, it's entirely manufactured.

[–] ElleChaise@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kind of funny the left is known for grass roots movements, and the right is known for astroturfing... Wait, is that why it's called astroturfing?

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

As a play off of the term "grassroots"? Yea.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, astroturf is fake grass, and astroturfed movements are fake grassroots movements.