A financial services company, which supports legislation that makes it more difficult for investors to sue for fraud, hires a Washington-based firm to generate and mail thousands of letters of support to members of Congress.This strategy is also known as

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Astroturf lobbying is a type of lobbying where an organization creates the illusion of grassroots support for a particular issue or policy, when in reality the support is artificially generated by the organization itself. In this scenario, the financial services company is hiring a firm to generate letters of support, which can create the appearance of widespread public support for the legislation that they are advocating for, even if that support doesn't actually exist.

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