The flies know...
Posted on 10/11/2016 7:44:10 AM PDT by T Ruth
A significant portion of online support for Hillary Clinton is manufactured by paid “astroturf” trolls: a large team of supporters who spends long hours responding to negative news on the internet about her. The Clinton SuperPAC Correct the Record, which is affiliated with her campaign, acknowledged in an April press release that it was spending $1 million on project “Breaking Barriers” to pay people to respond to negative information about Clinton on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. That amount has since increased to over $6 million. The trolls create a false impression that Clinton has more support than she really does, because one supporter will frequently create multiple anonymous accounts.
Libby Watson of The Sunlight Foundation observed that the astroturf effort goes far beyond merely defending Clinton, to targeting and intimidating those who criticize her. She told The Daily Beast, “This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online.”
Brian Donahue, chief executive of the consulting firm Craft Media/Digital, explained the troll operation to The Los Angeles Times, “It is meant to appear to be coming organically from people and their social media networks in a groundswell of activism, when in fact it is highly paid and highly tactical.” He went on, “That is what the Clinton campaign has always been about. It runs the risk of being exactly what their opponents accuse them of being: a campaign that appears to be populist but is a smokescreen that is paid and brought to you by lifetime political operatives and high-level consultants.”
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Clinton hired a campaign manager this election cycle known for his scorched earth tactics. . . . By choosing Mook, Clinton reveals the type of campaign she wants, Alinskyite tactics of do anything to win.
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I am guessing these are accounts used by someone to monitor others to determine whom to shadowban and harass.
It’s a good thing we have never had trolls here on FR.
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Clinton using PAID TROLLS to create fake support.
so now we have manipulated polls fake trolls fake news
and yet Trump is finished? the race is over?
this is as settled as algore’s settled science.
Well, from paid stock promoters.... there are paid “pumpers”
the come back of Pump & Dump
bTW you did not have to excerpt the body.
Lots of CTR ‘shills’ out there.
Have been playing around at Reddit & 4chan and they are numerous.
I have a vast supply of ‘meme magic’ to throw at them.
Mock them where ever you find them!!!
Darlin’ Little Rachel, nobody PAYS us to do it; we do it out of love for our country. You should know that by now. DEMS have to pay Trolls.
Oops! My bad. I misread the headline. Sorry.
They are here also.
Just check who keeps posting NY Times and Washington Post articles.
LOL for a second I thought you had come forward as one of Hillary’s trolls.
I think you are right.
Hillary and the cardboard media are spinning themselves into the ground...
Some here may be paid trolls, others seem to be globalist who have some private interests to protect against Trump.
Just found out why the beast had a big crowd last night at her rally at the university....SHE HAD A POPULAR ARTIST named SAMANTHA something...never heard of her but drew a whole bunch of linguine brainwashed snots!! I noticed not one word about the special guest by the paid trolls in any of their posts!! They’re pulling the wool over our eyes...the botch by herself can’t even draw flies...wait flies she can attract, people not so much!!
r/politics on Reddit is like their beehive.
People on FR should go over and sign up for an account (no email required) and give them some pushback.
The flies know...
Twitter is using celeb accounts to promote Clinton. They had similar wording. I bet the celebs themselves do not A) use Twitter and B) are unaware their accounts were hijacked and C) too afraid to complain as intolerant hollywood would wreck their careers.
#3 That news is coming from the fake republicans who look like trolls.
I was reading a story about HRC on the Daily Mail site and the comments section had been flooded by the trolls. Anti Hillary comments were given 30-40 thumbs up and 2500 or 3000 thumbs down. So very obvious a troll was working the site.
spin over to reddit r politics sometime. That is the home of Correct The Record.
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