Progression of a Meme:
MediaMatters or some left-wing Lobbyist group decides what the meme of the day is going to be, and floats it as a diary, in the evening, on Daily Kos. It is driven up in “favorites” by controlled sockpuppet ID’s, giving the impression that it is “Popular”, and so it is picked up by the Metacrawlers for the search engines.
You can literally watch the meme develop on Twitter, as hundreds of sockpuppet ID’s all start tweeting the exact same words, over the space on several minutes.
This then gets retweeted by even more sockpuppets, giving the impression of a “trend” in Opinion. The same thing happens on Facebook. It is effective because so many don’t actually know the people they friend, or follow them on Twitter.
(There are left-wing “Opinion management” firms that specialize in this stuff, and it is all done with the touch of key. Some of these firms control MILLIONS of sockpuppets on Twitter and Facebook.)
MediaMatters coordinates the Journo-listers/”Gamechangers” through texts, and emails, so that by morning, most of the talking heads are all saying the same thing, while others direct assets to “Cover” this “trending news” in the morning planning meeting, so that all of the rest of the talking heads are on the same page.
I followed several of these meme developments during the 2012 elections, and am still amazed at how out-in-the-open this stuff is, yet no one in the major media dares to discuss it.
You are spot on.
“I followed several of these meme developments during the 2012 elections, and am still amazed at how out-in-the-open this stuff is, yet no one in the major media dares to discuss it.”
They won’t expose the scam if they are part of it or sympathetic to it.