Sock puppetry. In online communities, the practice of a single person creating lots of accounts and pretending to be several different people in a debate so as to create the illusion of support for a particular position.
Here's a Wikipedia page that details sock puppetry on Wikipedia.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Social jargon: Sock puppetry
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