Uhm. What are you suggesting exactly? That Underwood somehow manipulated Huy Fong into screwing them over and then suing them, just so that they could get a good story out of it?
Do you think it's fabricated? You can read the exact same thing in the court judgement. It's barely any longer than the reddit comment.
They are clearly suggesting that the story recurring every two months is Astro-turfed, not that the story itself is false?
It is a shame reddit lets people hide their post and comment history now so there can be no identifying signals about astro-turfing or bots. I'm sure this is ostensibly about preventing harassment, and in actuality about disguising bot behavior driving engagement. Or maybe I'm just extra cynical this morning.
Here I was foolishly thinking AstroTurf meant false grass
Well, it implies that the "grassroots" element of it is fake, the message itself being false is optional.