Posted on 05/19/2020 8:08:12 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
It was a campaign video that reached seemingly every Democratic corner of the internet: former President Barack Obama’s 12-minute endorsement of his former vice president and indictment of the current president. On Obama’s Facebook page, one of the most popular destinations in politics with 55.3 million followers, his endorsement of Joe Biden was viewed more than 4 million times.
But another Facebook page, run by twin brothers who immigrated from Mexico, reached substantially more eyes. Their reposting of Obama’s endorsement, with a simple “BREAKING” text over the video, clocked more than 23 million views.
Meet Rafael and Omar Rivero, the co-founders of Occupy Democrats, the social media mavens of the left who are quickly emerging as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing online sites.
In a presidential race playing out on iPhones and screens more than any in history, in part because of the coronavirus pandemic, these digital entrepreneurs can drive the political conversation online and influence how candidates are seen as much as a campaign’s well-funded digital advisers can.
The twins, 33, started the Occupy Democrats Facebook page eight years ago and, combined with an accompanying website, they have reached a digital dominance rarely seen among liberals — one that keeps pace with viral news sites and regularly outperforms President Donald Trump’s own page, as well as the Daily Caller, Fox News and other right-wing websites or personalities. What was once a hobby between gigs has grown into a full-fledged, full-time operation with five additional staffers.
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Yahoo has a penchant for posting liberal news stories, but I'd say over 90% of the feedback in the "comments" section below the article is a refutation of the article itself. I'm surprised that Yahoo! hasn't caught on.
The twins,no doubt,are funded by Rat Party Headquarters as well as every top Mexican drug lord.Why? Because neither the Rat Party nor the drug lords want a wall on our southern border.
It helps when Facebook is censoring the other side.
Dominance of right-wing websites. LOL.
I’ll bet half the posters on the brothers site are from other countries
I wonder how many are bots.
‘The left can’t meme’ is more than a saying.
It is reality because the left is ‘humorless’.
This election cycle is going to be a bloodbath...
Mexican collusion!!!
That's a little hard to believe. Are there really that many homosexuals on the face of the planet?
Whose Socialist Security Numbers are they using?
That’s a good point. There is no easy way to discern whether I’m responding to a person or to a Bot.
A friend of mine stopped going to Dating Sites, because almost all of the desirable women were suspiciously similar in certain ways. So, probably they weren’t even real, or there was some Old Hag using that same script.
Amazing how many reposts liberals do of the memes; and that’s basically it. Once you start blocking these sources on Facebook, you’ll find that was almost all the political posting liberal people did, simply hit the share button over and over again.
Block a half dozen sources, you’ll find the most stringent liberal is effectively muted except for those rare moments when they actually share part of their lives. Kinda sad, really. Getting told what to think 24/7.
Exactly
One side is censored/throttled to the point of non existence
The other side gets “free” promotion
And then they can write puff pieces how the once side is “winning”
Obamagate was Trending on twatter until twatter stepped in and made Obamagatemyass trend. Yep, no political bias
So it’s wrong for a Russian to post a few memes and comments about our politics, but for Mexicans to have this gigantic presence to counter the POTUS is A-OK?
How?
Staffers paid with Soros money.
Occupy Democrats is looney and overt lies.
One of the worst.
Like using images from Obama time of “kids in cages” and attributing those images to Trump.
At least the Crimson Twins Tomax and Xamot are not involved.
I thought Jussie’s Nigerian MAGA brothers had another gig.
BS
So, the left wants to count Facebook hits instead of votes?
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