Astrotruth Peels Back The Turf on Big Oil Supported Astroturf Groups

Published October 29, 2009 @ 05:01PM PT

Astrotruth.org seeks to expose the 'astroturfing' done by Big Oil and Dirty Coal. Astroturfing is the now all-too-familiar creation of an organization designed to look like popular grass-roots programs when in fact it's a planned public relations campaign that mislead who is behind supposedly spontaneous campaigns. They disguise a commercial entity's involvement, misleading the nature and origin of their opposition.

Astrotruth have so far identified three big-oil and two dirty-coal organizations who are spouting false claims and presenting themselves as legitimate groups. Astrotruth needs your help to uncover and "peel back the turf" to see who's propping up and funding organizations misleading the public.

Astroturfing is dishonest and underhanded at best, fraudulent and responsible for corrupting the political process at worst. Timothy Karr, the campaign director for freepress.net explained to the Guardian that "A healthy 21st-century democracy doesn't need phoney front groups. We need openness, accountability and real debate."

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