Astroturf ‘Outrage Machine’ of Paid Trolls Floods Social Media to Counteract Negative News About Hil

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[jacknhoo]

And they’re getting beat down bad.

[unixfox]

These paid trolls love to hit Breitbart.

It is so obvious they use really great screen names like GUEST. Pfft...

[T Ruth]

You’re probably right on all counts.

[Windflier]

The infamous Red Arrow Brigade invaded Daily Mail about six months ago. They’re a small number of paid political operatives who are in possession of some sort of hack that allows them to post hundreds, even thousands of arrow clicks at once.

To show you just how blatantly obvious these morons are, they regularly up the arrow count something like ten to one against any anti-Clinton post they happen upon.

Even more obvious, are the lack of pro-Clinton posts on many threads about the presidential race. Ignore the arrows, and simply note the ratio of pro-Clinton to pro-Trump comments, and it’s easy to see that nearly all of Hillary’s online support is manufactured.

[heights]

And a good number have come here...

[NOVACPA]

They have been doing it to Mike Cernovich lately.

They have been posting extremely negative book reviews on Amazon.

[NOVACPA]

CNBC in its infancy used to be a good channel. Kerner, Faber, Haines.

Now, it’s nothing more than .gov propaganda all the time. They

[DBrow]

Obama has promised us that HRC *WILL* be the next president.

The trick now is to make it look like she has lots of support so that when the results come in we won’t be suspicious.

Hmmm, down 80 in the polls but carries 57 states? That’s odd. But “OMG they are running neck and neck!” And she carries just enough electoral votes won’t raise too many eyebrows.

[Sam Gamgee]

Hmmm... I think I am now going to question the integrity of Trump hating posters on Facebook. My first question will be “are you getting paid to say this?”

[Fu-fu2]

Noticed the same in the comments section on Yahoo News late last week. Suddenly any pro-Trump comment got hundreds of thumbs down. It happened suddenly and was definitely co-ordinated.

[Mozilla]

We Han trolls but on other conservative sites they flood.

[Mozilla]

FR bans trolls but on other conservative sites they flood.

[T Ruth]

You’re right. So the trolls here have to be subtle and patient.

[Frank_2001]

YES, I HAVE noticed that, they’ve even got her RE-elected !!! ROTFLMAO!!! There RATS are masters of psyops...and don’t let those small Hillary rally crowds fool anyone, for they may WANT small crowds!!!! They probably think small crowds will lead to our complacency regarding her chances...DO NOT FALL FOR IT!!!!!!!

[clearcarbon]

Do clinton trolls punch a clock or do they work on commission?

[right-wingin_It]

I'm not surprised...The enthusiasm gap is so large, and they are not even trying to hide it. They expected the media to cover for everything.

- Empty Hillary rallies with cropped photos of crowds to over it up

- fake "homemade looking signs" they hand out to the few dozen people that show up to some of these campaign rallies..er, um "events" they call them

- the outlier polls with missing weighting in their methodology (Monmouth comes to mind), timed so perfectly


- The lack of any, ANY yard signs -- including in some of the most liberal states and metro areas within them.

-Lack of participation in online polls. Loses in all online post debate polls.

- The sparsely staffed campaign offices with no one doing anything, and stench within of ultra low moral

I seriously believe her campaign strategy was to strictly avoid, as much as possible, interacting with the real voters -- because of the potential for uncertainty and lack of control they might have that goes along with that. They know she's not a good people person..horrible at it. Instead they focused completely on fundraising, and let the machine do the work! Now the machine does cost A LOT of money, somewhere north of a half a billion dollars, but they thought hey 'it's waaay less risky' then real campaigning with "everyday americans"!

WELL, it just might backfire

[right-wingin_It]

Gonna be a huge Brexit-like phenomenon. A lot of the polling in the polling averages are online polling too, like survey monkey and others - That was same problem with Brexit polling - oversampling of young persons and in general people who tend to spent more time on the computer (such as at while at work, and ordering crap from the internet on a daily basis). To me that skews more lib.

[T Ruth]

I think your observations are right, and I hope your conclusion is right.

I see see a few Johnson signs and stickers, but NO Hillary bumper stickers, and NO Hillary signs.

I see lots of Trump signs but few bumper stickers.

[Republican Wildcat]

Back in the old days we called them “disrupters.” In the days of the ASH ALERTS ...

[Publius]

Ah, yes. Ash and Don Morgan.

You're making me nostalgic.