Comment on What is "FUD"?
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
It means "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt".
It's a modern kind of shit talking employed by large corporations in conjunction with astro turfing to dissuade people from going to a competitor.
Because saying stuff like "I dunno dude, there's been reports of a lot of problems with Product X" is a lot more persuasive than "Product X sux!!!", especially when you don't know the poster was paid by Company Y, a competitor, to say it.