Idk I’m tired of people thinking that astroturfing is unique to one group. Astroturfing is so universal that there were specialized campaigns to destroy all the organizations trained to educate the public on how astroturfing campaigns work.
The same tactics I’m seeing now were the same tactics used to divide and destroy the 2014-2016 Black Lives Matter movement. (To the point where the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement is seen as a separate and new thing, and “Say Their Name” campaigns predate 2014.)
The same tactics I’m pretty sure were used against immigration reform movements.
These tactics just keep being recycled because everyone thinks they only ever apply to the groups they already belong to—and it doesn’t count when they’re used against others.
And that’s why astroturfing works.