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I read about this a couple days ago. Apparently this started the nonsense: https://twitter.com/Pash_away/status/988951710524583937 https://twitter.com/Pash_away

• verroq 8y ago
  Funny how none of the news mention that pro-black groups started the vote manipulation, which resulted in trolls escalating the manipulation.
  • pentae 8y ago
    Seems like a standard news day to me. Why let all the facts get in the way of good clickbait?
  • CM30 8y ago
    Probably because stories that support an outlet's worldview/narrative are investigated far less than ones that challenge it. You can see the same issue with the story of that YouTube prankster supposedly 'thrown off a plane for speaking Arabic'; he wasn't (he was trolling people beforehand), but because it fit the '2016 election led to increased Islamaphobia/hatred of outsiders' worldview, it went unchallenged until others stepped forward afterwards. It's not a pattern exclusive to one political side and their media outlets either; if a story sounds like it can be used to rally the troops and support a message, it won't be investigated too thoroughly regardless of whether it supports the left or right or centre or whoever else.
• empath75 8y ago
  There’s a big difference between lending a hand to lift someone up and using a boot to stomp them down.
• jgh 8y ago
  Whatever. Online polls are always subject to people using their social media influence to push results one way or another.
• dogma1138 8y ago
  Is that the troll account or did people reacted negatively to the precieved tribalism and voted against them?