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WashPost Compares Pro-Trump Teenagers to ‘Russian Trolls,’ Gets Them Banned from Social Media
Breitbart ^ | September 16 2020 | ALLUM BOKHARI

Posted on 09/16/2020 12:09:36 PM PDT by knighthawk

Conservative digital activists were smeared as behaving like “Russian trolls” by a recent article in the Washington Post. The writer also made sure to reach out to both Twitter and Facebook to get the teenage activists banned.

The article goes to great lengths — even interviewing PhDs — to compare the teenagers to “bots,” even though the article presents no evidence that any accounts were not operated by humans, and to “Russian trolls,” even though the article acknowledges that the people in charge of the accounts were Americans.

The article also casts normal behavior of political activists, like reading from a shared list of talking points, as somehow unusual. The Washington Post labels the act of paying people to repeat political messages — a standard feature of virtually all major political campaigns — as “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; bidenvoters; facebook; mediabias; twitter; wapo
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To: SaveFerris

[Well I WENT]

Sorry, my English is not good.

Just arrived here from Petropavlovsk, you know.


21 posted on 09/16/2020 2:20:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

Only for liberal americans.


22 posted on 09/16/2020 2:36:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: knighthawk

People who write things like this article are dangerous. The believe in free speech only as long as they are the words and opinions they want to hear and agree with.

It should remind you a whole lot of Hitler and those organizations who support this crap would have also supported Hitler and the final solution of 6 million jews.


23 posted on 09/16/2020 3:00:57 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: libstripper

LOL. Thanks for sharing your “confession”. Trump has completely gotten under the left’s collective skin. They’re seeing Russians everywhere.


24 posted on 09/16/2020 5:08:16 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: dowcaet

I think they’re seeing eeeeevil Russians everywhere is because the Russians dumped communism and they can’t stand that.


25 posted on 09/16/2020 5:12:02 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: knighthawk

Get Nick Sandmann’s attorney—WaPo is a slow learner.


26 posted on 09/16/2020 9:20:39 PM PDT by Fedora
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