Clinton Is Fighting the Troll Wars With a Million Dollar Super-PAC Campaign

Gizmodo ^ | 05/10/2016 | Matt Novak

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If we’ve learned anything from this election cycle it’s that American politics gets the messiest when it’s online. And the Clinton campaign has decided that it wants to fight fire with fire when it comes to online trolls. The Clinton camp has built their own troll army using roughly $1 million of super-PAC funds. The only question remaining: Is this open coordination of online campaigning even legal?

As the Los Angeles Times reports, a super-PAC called Correct the Record has hired a legion of “former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, [and] designers” to go after anyone online who is critical of Hillary Clinton. And it’s a well-funded effort. According to Correct the Record, it’s “engaged” with roughly 5,000 people online so far.

[Luircin]

You can’t go around saying that everyone who disagrees
with you is a disciple of Satan or whatever without any
kind of evidence.

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I agree, but I never said that, and I never intended to imply it either.

(Though personally I’d say that anyone who goes and endorses Hillary has all that coming to them and more.)

I’ve yelled at more than a few people in my time, yes. I’ve accused people when they fit the profile.

I’ve also comforted and tried to help people I’ve yelled at and disagreed with.

Depends on how personal they want to make it.

[WMarshal]

Those trolls usually have digits in their posting names/IDs. A human is clever enough to create a memorable, meaningful ID that doesn’t look like an random set of letters had sex with a social security number. When I post on other sites I call them out as Hillary’s paid trolls.

[BuckeyeTexan]

But posting at all hours of the day plus repeated talking points plus only showing up during the election season plus eventually opusing out or getting banned while claiming that they’re supporting Hillary does kind of lend itself to that hypothesis, am I right?

That's called a logical fallacy, specifically a hasty generalization. Look it up.

Perdogg was not a paid troll. He spent significant time helping me with the SCOTUS ping list.

Liar.
L. I. A. R.

Argumentum ad hominem.

[Luircin]

I don’t remember ever talking with Perdogg.

Whatever the case, I was done with this conversation yesterday.

[Luircin]

(And besides, did Perdogg claim that he was going to vote for Hillary and post maybe twice before going on an anti-Trump screed?)

[BuckeyeTexan]

I thought you were done?

[Luircin]

I exaggerated.

[clearcarbon]

For troll infestations!