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etjossem 9y ago
From your source: - The DNC was not paying Correct The Record. Like all super PACs, Correct The Record made independent expenditures on behalf of supportive donors around the country, and you can find their names here: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00578997 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmt... - Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online. I'm not seeing any references to improper payments made by the DNC, nor do I see the Reddit connection. While we're on the topic of independent expenditures, would you like to talk about the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts that were used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebo...
- pentagonpapers 9y ago
  > The DNC was not paying Correct The Record as you claim; they were independently funded by donors around the country, all of whom are listed here: Super PACs have NEVER taken advice or worked directly with national campaigns. (they verifiably do) > Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online. > If this was supposed to be your evidence of a vast DNC conspiracy to ruin Reddit, I'm incredibly disappointed. I would say reddit going from a place that once supported open and free ideas, to one that only pretends to, is a very dangerous thing. Shilling is real, people are paid to do it. On both sides. Clearly the left wing has the advantage on reddit. > And given the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content, do you really want to have this conversation? NYtimes writing slam pieces about our president? More fake russian collusion stories? Color me shocked. I don't trust the media, and neither should you. The whole Russia story is hogwash.
- tzahola 9y ago
  Thank You for Correcting The Record!
  - etjossem 9y ago
    Zing!
- Karunamon 9y ago
  Why the whataboutism here? No, I would not like to address these accounts and the questionable methodology that was used to get that "328 million" number, because it's irrelevant to the question. As to the question, the answer unfortunately requires some familiarity with Reddit and having been a regular user there for a while. /r/politics is the big one since it was a "default" community up until that concept was eliminated a while ago (basically it was automatically on the front page if you browsed the site while logged out, and if you made an account, you were automatically subscribed to it). I bring them up, because they're the largest political community on the site, and had a level of privilege that comes with that. CTR is used as shorthand for the pro-Hillary tonal shift in /r/politics that happened fairly rapidly[1], combined with fairly obvious botting[2]. While there's no proof that any particular organization was responsible for those posts, or that Reddit's owners tacitly permitted their behavior, CTR is to my knowledge the only organization who had social network promotion (beyond the usual writing their own obvious posts or buying ads) of Hillary Clinton as its goal, going to the point of addressing actual individuals. AFAIK, this is new. [1]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-million-to-correct-commenters-on-reddit-and-facebook https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mil... [2]: https://i.imgur.com/uYZuRBc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uYZuRBc.jpg
  - etjossem 9y ago
    I did some digging, and your evidence of "obvious pro-Hillary botting" (your [2] above) is an alt-right photoshop. They couldn't find any real evidence of this happening, so they fabricated their own. Here's how. The William_Trevino post is a real post on Reddit that was used as a template: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AWilliam_Trevino https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AWilliam_... But all the other "FirstName_LastName" entries were edited in by the creator of the image. Unlike William_Trevino's entry, they have no associated Reddit post. You can try to find users by those names or posts with those entries' title, but they don't exist. - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AHoward_Lowery&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AHoward_L... - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3ATerry_Moore&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3ATerry_Mo... etc. I've gone ahead and flagged you for posting a completely deceptive photoshop of the truth. Please make an effort to fact-check yourself next time.

From your source: - The DNC was not paying Correct The Record. Like all super PACs, Correct The Record made independent expenditures on behalf of supportive donors around the country, and you can find their names here: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00578997 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmt... - Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online. I'm not seeing any references to improper payments made by the DNC, nor do I see the Reddit connection. While we're on the topic of independent expenditures, would you like to talk about the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts that were used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebo...

pentagonpapers 9y ago
> The DNC was not paying Correct The Record as you claim; they were independently funded by donors around the country, all of whom are listed here: Super PACs have NEVER taken advice or worked directly with national campaigns. (they verifiably do) > Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online. > If this was supposed to be your evidence of a vast DNC conspiracy to ruin Reddit, I'm incredibly disappointed. I would say reddit going from a place that once supported open and free ideas, to one that only pretends to, is a very dangerous thing. Shilling is real, people are paid to do it. On both sides. Clearly the left wing has the advantage on reddit. > And given the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content, do you really want to have this conversation? NYtimes writing slam pieces about our president? More fake russian collusion stories? Color me shocked. I don't trust the media, and neither should you. The whole Russia story is hogwash.
tzahola 9y ago
Thank You for Correcting The Record!
- etjossem 9y ago
  Zing!
Karunamon 9y ago
Why the whataboutism here? No, I would not like to address these accounts and the questionable methodology that was used to get that "328 million" number, because it's irrelevant to the question. As to the question, the answer unfortunately requires some familiarity with Reddit and having been a regular user there for a while. /r/politics is the big one since it was a "default" community up until that concept was eliminated a while ago (basically it was automatically on the front page if you browsed the site while logged out, and if you made an account, you were automatically subscribed to it). I bring them up, because they're the largest political community on the site, and had a level of privilege that comes with that. CTR is used as shorthand for the pro-Hillary tonal shift in /r/politics that happened fairly rapidly[1], combined with fairly obvious botting[2]. While there's no proof that any particular organization was responsible for those posts, or that Reddit's owners tacitly permitted their behavior, CTR is to my knowledge the only organization who had social network promotion (beyond the usual writing their own obvious posts or buying ads) of Hillary Clinton as its goal, going to the point of addressing actual individuals. AFAIK, this is new. [1]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-million-to-correct-commenters-on-reddit-and-facebook https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mil... [2]: https://i.imgur.com/uYZuRBc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uYZuRBc.jpg
- etjossem 9y ago
  I did some digging, and your evidence of "obvious pro-Hillary botting" (your [2] above) is an alt-right photoshop. They couldn't find any real evidence of this happening, so they fabricated their own. Here's how. The William_Trevino post is a real post on Reddit that was used as a template: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AWilliam_Trevino https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AWilliam_... But all the other "FirstName_LastName" entries were edited in by the creator of the image. Unlike William_Trevino's entry, they have no associated Reddit post. You can try to find users by those names or posts with those entries' title, but they don't exist. - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AHoward_Lowery&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3AHoward_L... - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3ATerry_Moore&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/search?q=author%3ATerry_Mo... etc. I've gone ahead and flagged you for posting a completely deceptive photoshop of the truth. Please make an effort to fact-check yourself next time.