Posted on 06/14/2015 2:48:41 PM PDT by Isara
We heard the news about Hillary's fake Twitter and Facebook followers and her operatives pretending to be her regular supporters. Is it possible that it also is happening right here on Free Republic Web site?
Free Republic is a premier Conservative site. Most of us know who, among the presidential candidates, is the most Conservative. Our candidate happens to be effective in his campaigning also. Our enemies know that and fear him the most. Naturally, Free Republic is turning into a battleground.
We don't know who they are: other Republican campaign operatives, GOPe, Hillary's camp, Democratic operatives, union thugs, Castro brothers, ISIS, LGBT, ACLU, etc. But they all share one common goal - to take Ted Cruz out. Since trust is Ted Cruz's strong point, they are trying to erode our trust of him.
You may notice that they came in the threads about Ted Cruz in teams, 2 or more at the same time. No matter how much we gave them the facts, these same people went to the next thread and repeated the same misinformation over and over again. This is why I think we are under attack.
Their strategies are:
I've detected that some patterns of their posting were shared among these operatives. Is it possible that there are a few of them pretending to be a lot more, just like Hillary's Twitter and Facebook followers?
and add this in...
ready...
in the senate cruz is among the top 10 vote missers...
guy can’t even be bothered to do what he was sent there to do, and people want to make him president???
no more insiders..
“misinformation lying about it if necessary
muddling the issues leading to confusion and distrust
disparaging comments by pretending to be disgruntled supporters
posting old articles to open up the opportunity for his/her team to join the attack”
The only thing that can be done is to refute lies with facts and point out the half-truths, substituting whole truths.
Nobody’s perfect, and when we find imperfections we should ask the candidate to correct them, ignore them if they are truly minor, or acknowledge them and either live with them or look elsewhere.
Snow is fun for a couple of days, then not so much. You don’t see me living in Des Moines anymore, do you?
Nope. You are wrong. There isn’t a rational argument you can make to support that wild and factless statement.
I say its Laz. He’s the astroturfer.
He’s Kevin Costner from ‘No Way Out’. He’s Yuri.
We should search the building until he is found.
Seriously, I don’t think they’re going to waste time infiltrating us or trolling. They do it to us, we do it to them.
I have no doubt this site is monitored by all sorts of folks who shouldn’t. I think FR has done more to expose the fact that there’s only one party in DC than all of the nets combined, including Fox News.
What’s happening right now stuns everyone. I’ve listened to Rush a lot of years, and even he sounds like he doesn’t get it lately.
We may be reaching the end of the ‘American Experiment’. On the 12th, Texas voted to create its own gold and silver depository. Texas isn’t Rhode Island.
Let them troll. This forum busted the Bush National Guard Memo scandal in less than 8 hours. 8 hours. If they made a move on what we thought was a solid conservative candidate, I think the forum would either verify the claim or refute it.
Dan Rather got shown the door in all of that. He mattered, once.
Hey, there are semi-pro trolls who make poor life decisions.
With any new industry, there are those who fail at implementation.
I know and he knows. We were just playing around.
I forgot to CC you on comment #247.
No. The next thing he/she/it will say is that you are cyberbullying. :)
Thank you very much for your comments!
Cyber bullying? What a whiny cry-baby.
Those are not the Freepers you are looking for...
Did you see “:)” after my comment, dear?
Rush Limbaugh was able to identify just 12 or 13 people on the #StopRush campaign — losers with nothing better to do than vent their rage against an individual on social media. These folks know how to play the game, have dozens and dozens of social media accounts — why not think they’re here to impact the opinions of Freepers. That’s just the sort of thing leftists do.
I know what you mean...but something always seems off with their postings....I think some use written forms of NLP and can be very subtle. On this forum though after a bit, such can start to stand out like an inkspot on a white canvas. I do so enjoy detecting them!
Now if they want to stay around, defend their view points, and are decent...fine but when they start with the subtle snarkiness...goodbye! The post(hit and run types) it and scram types really get my goat. I understand why humble gunner hates certain bloggers who do this type of thing, especially when they don’t stick around to defend their view points!
I’ve seen what you’ve described. I remember one classic point counter point I was in where I was up against a few posters who were all using very similar sentence structures and voice in their responses...I threw out the challenge that the 3 were all the same person and abruptly the conversation stopped...they just “slunk way! You get used to certain posters having a kind of “voice” over the years.
A = B
B = C
Then A = C
Heidi Cruz works at Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs is a globalist and evil.
Heidi Cruz is a globalist and evil.
Exactly! A dozen of people pretend to be thousands attacking Rush’s sponsors.
Or trolls might post inane articles - silly stuff - especially when critical things were happening. Or post to much to in effect - stop our ability to communicate with each other. Or even inject calls for violence - or make us feel uncomfortable about being conservatives.
A troll goal is to demoralize. It's also possible trolls are pitting us against each other using freep mail ... Jim stays on top of this stuff.. and the mods ... and often a name just disappears.
It’s something like that but a bit more subtle...but the moral “push is there...like they are trying to lead you by the nose and they think they are being sneaky about it. Simple repetitions and phrasings...like you describe! There is a precision about it as well!.
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