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  • 13-08-2018 1:06pm
    #1
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,373 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I had no idea this was such a big thing, is it a thing in Ireland?
    Its pretty fecking scary!



    Definition below btw
    the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.


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  • #2
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,517 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Thankfully we don't have political TV adverts like the USA but interest groups do certainly create websites, facebook pages and run adverts online with dark money. The recent ref showed that lots of this was happening on the NO side and this is why only they got awful upset when adverts from outside Ireland were banned.


  • #3
    rgodard80a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭rgodard80a


    gmisk wrote: »
    Ok I had no idea this was such a big thing, is it a thing in Ireland?

    Yeah, there's whole leagues devoted to it.


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,338 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I prefer Rodney's interpretation:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7cidFSyu4


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