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Small Liberal Group Isn’t Denying Using Automated Software to Target Tweets at Limbaugh Advertisers
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 15, 2014 - 1:04 PM | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 10/15/2014 1:23:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A small group of liberal activists who want conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh off the air are not denying—as stated in an investigative report posted on Limbaugh’s website—that they have used automated software to generate massive numbers of negative tweets to companies they apparently have never patronized but that advertise on Limbaugh’s show.

The automated generation of massive numbers of Tweets may be in violation of Twitter’s own rules. However, Twitter declined to directly comment on the matter—instead pointing CNSNews.com to its user rules.

On Sept. 23, the rushlimbaugh.com website posted an extensive investigative report, The Hidden Story Behind Stop Rush. This report presented details about 10 liberal activists whom the report described as “Top Members of the Stop Rush Conspiracy.”

In addition to naming names, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, and some e-mail addresses for the activists, the report said this small group of anti-Rush activists did not constitute a grassroots movement but were “just a small number of hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP [executive vice president] of Media Matters for America.” Media Matters is a left-wing media monitoring group. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2014; 201409; 20140923; angelocarusone; censorship; demagogicparty; homosexualagenda; liberalagenda; mediamatters; memebuilding; mm; mm4a; mma; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; robotsoftware; rushlimbaugh; stoprush; twitter

1 posted on 10/15/2014 1:23:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

0bots are robots.


2 posted on 10/15/2014 1:29:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Olog-hai
Ask Select Comfort & Carbonite backup about sales after they dumped rush.

Then they begged to come back. ...too late, Rush had them replaced in days.

3 posted on 10/15/2014 1:35:23 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Olog-hai

Liberals lie - people die


4 posted on 10/15/2014 1:43:38 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: TexasCajun; All

Ask Select Comfort & Carbonite backup
about sales after they dumped rush.
the Sarah Fugle? media event.

5 posted on 10/15/2014 1:46:45 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Liberalism to Fabianism to Socialism to Marxism to Totalitarianism.. "the inertia of stupidity" d8-)
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To: Olog-hai
It's also a MAJOR violation of the terms of service of Twitter, too. That group could end up being sued by Twitter.
6 posted on 10/15/2014 1:54:11 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88
It's also a MAJOR violation of the terms of service of Twitter, too. That group could end up being sued by Twitter.
Very interesting . . . is there any way to motivate Twitter to enforce that provision in this case???
The reality is that this is just an everyday example of “bias in the media” if they don’t put the kibosh on this . . .

7 posted on 10/15/2014 2:01:23 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Olog-hai
Hi tech treachery
8 posted on 10/15/2014 3:23:05 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Olog-hai; Baynative

Baynative, here’s more on the Left’s PsyOps via Twitter.


9 posted on 10/15/2014 3:26:16 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Olog-hai

Jeez, every time they try this, people buy ad space on Rush’s show, when other advertisers get scared. Bring it on libs...


10 posted on 10/15/2014 3:56:04 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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