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Pretty fascinating stuff. I'm not sure what Trump's arm of this kind of propaganda is, but Correct the Record was a very real thing, despite the bogeyman descr

Pretty fascinating stuff. I'm not sure what Trump's arm of this kind of propaganda is, but Correct the Record was a very real thing, despite the bogeyman descriptions of it in some online communities. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record Interestingly, the original website is now gone, but it used to say essentially that it advocated for Clinton across Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media. http://www.correctrecord.org/ http://www.correctrecord.org/ The scary thing is just how cheap it would be to pay people to sit in online communities and drive attention to and away from whatever you wanted. Even more interesting is in 10 years it'll be like it never existed. Spread some propaganda, pack up, and go home.

cryoshon 10y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, CTR is a perfect example of this phenomenon operating within the USA, albeit in a slightly different context than in China. The US government likely has similar programs going on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG
LyndsySimon 10y ago
> I'm not sure what Trump's arm of this kind of propaganda is In all seriousness - it's /pol/. See also /r/The_Donald, gab.ai, and a handful of niche forums. As an aside, I'm sad that gab.ai hasn't seen adoption outside that political group. It's really got a lot of potential as a platform.
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  Do you have any links about paid propaganda on /pol/?
  - LyndsySimon 10y ago
    I've not seen any allegations of that. I'm not saying it's paid, I'm saying it's his propaganda arm. They serve the function, officially or not.
notahacker 10y ago
As a general rule in democratic societies, if your cause has so little public support you have to actually pay people in online communities to get them to defend it, you tend to lose to the other side whose people are prepared to state their reason, argue or just troll for free (whether they've been encouraged to do it by a slick political campaign or aggressive media personality or not)
allemagne 10y ago
A New York billionaire with decades of supporting liberal policies and democratic politicians was elected as a champion of the conservative working middle class. That's a propaganda victory. If the goal of Correct The Record was to brainwash the public then it failed spectacularly. If the puppetmasters of the world are behind it, they don't seem very effective at all.
- krapp 10y ago
  >If the goal of Correct The Record was to brainwash the public then it failed spectacularly. If the puppetmasters of the world are behind it, they don't seem very effective at all. They did brainwash the public, and would have succeeded, if not for the sheer determination and force of will behind the campaign of Donald Trump, whose steadfast commitment to truth and purity of character achieved the impossible and overturned the corrupt established order like Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders... is how you're supposed to resolve that paradox.

cryoshon 10y ago

Not sure why you were downvoted, CTR is a perfect example of this phenomenon operating within the USA, albeit in a slightly different context than in China. The US government likely has similar programs going on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG

LyndsySimon 10y ago

> I'm not sure what Trump's arm of this kind of propaganda is In all seriousness - it's /pol/. See also /r/The_Donald, gab.ai, and a handful of niche forums. As an aside, I'm sad that gab.ai hasn't seen adoption outside that political group. It's really got a lot of potential as a platform.

MichaelGG 10y ago
Do you have any links about paid propaganda on /pol/?
- LyndsySimon 10y ago
  I've not seen any allegations of that. I'm not saying it's paid, I'm saying it's his propaganda arm. They serve the function, officially or not.

notahacker 10y ago

As a general rule in democratic societies, if your cause has so little public support you have to actually pay people in online communities to get them to defend it, you tend to lose to the other side whose people are prepared to state their reason, argue or just troll for free (whether they've been encouraged to do it by a slick political campaign or aggressive media personality or not)

allemagne 10y ago

A New York billionaire with decades of supporting liberal policies and democratic politicians was elected as a champion of the conservative working middle class. That's a propaganda victory. If the goal of Correct The Record was to brainwash the public then it failed spectacularly. If the puppetmasters of the world are behind it, they don't seem very effective at all.

krapp 10y ago
>If the goal of Correct The Record was to brainwash the public then it failed spectacularly. If the puppetmasters of the world are behind it, they don't seem very effective at all. They did brainwash the public, and would have succeeded, if not for the sheer determination and force of will behind the campaign of Donald Trump, whose steadfast commitment to truth and purity of character achieved the impossible and overturned the corrupt established order like Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders... is how you're supposed to resolve that paradox.