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I can see opposing candidates pretending to be Bloomberg’s paid people saying stuff to make Bloomberg look bad. Any country who wants Bloomberg to not be a viab
by rdtsc 7y ago
I can see opposing candidates pretending to be Bloomberg’s paid people saying stuff to make Bloomberg look bad. Any country who wants Bloomberg to not be a viable candidate could do the same.
At this point I think anyone telling me to vote for Bloomberg received a check from him. It’s not true always of course, but it’s the first thing that pops into my head.
- luckylion 7y agoValid point, it's fuzzy. I just remembered New Knowledge [1] who ran false flag operations to make it look like their opponent was supported by Russian bot nets. There's likely a bit of both. Would Bloomberg pay $2500 per month for simple copy & paste jobs? Doubtful, I'm sure he has better media people that know they could get that for tiny fraction of the price. There may be pro-Bloomberg paid posting while somebody also pays for dumb multiplication bots to spread a message (or false flag it). [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThe Bloomberg campaign was doing this following the FEC regulations, meaning that the shill accounts had to identify themselves as such. If an account pretends to be a shill account, the Bloomberg campaign can simply show that the account was not one of theirs.