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badvocacy

noun

Etymology

Blend of bad + advocacy.

  1. derived from advocātia
  2. derived from advocacie
  3. inherited from advocacie
  4. compounded as badvocacy — “bad + advocacy”

Definitions

  1. Negative comments and disparagement of a person or organization that is spread online or…

    Negative comments and disparagement of a person or organization that is spread online or by word of mouth.

    • Badvocacy can be small and sneak up on you or can be big and take you by storm.
    • Today, this advocacy or ‘badvocacy’ is often the loudest voice out there – 83% of global respondents say they completely or somewhat trust the recommendations of friends and family.
    • It has also occasionally arisen in the broader human rights context, with the ‘badvocacy’ controversy surrounding Invisible Children’s ‘Kony 2012’ campaign as one good example .

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for badvocacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA