Stefan Mileschin

Is there an astro-turfing conspiracy to kill them all off?

It is starting to look like someone is manipulating the most stupid people in the United States to break the Coronavirus lockdowns so that they can be killed off.

To be fair, the right-wing, generously-proportioned, gun-totting, anti-vaxor, conspiracy-nuts don’t take much to fool, but ironically they have failed to see how someone is manipulating them using astro-turfing. Our favourite was the Apple fanboy (pictured) who took part wearing a mask in case he caught the illness that he claimed did not exist.

For those who came in late, Astro-turfing is a move by corporate or political interests to create the illusion of a grass roots campaign by setting up bogus websites.

Security expert Brian Krebs a spike in the new domain registrations beginning with the word “reopen” and ending with US city or state names have been registered.

The largest number of them were created hours after President Trump sent a series tweets entirely of caps urging citizens to “liberate” themselves from new gun control measures and state leaders who’ve enacted strict social distancing restrictions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

KrebsOnSecurity believed that these “reopen” sites were engaged in astroturfing, which involves masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants.

For example reopenmn.com, reopenpa.com, and reopenva.com were tied to various gun rights groups in those states. Their registrations have coincided with demonstrations in Minnesota, California and Tennessee where people showed up to protest quarantine restrictions over the past few days.

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