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I too was once an avid Slashdot reader but linking to a Slashdot post makes even less sense to me than linking to an HN post. Actual reference: https://www.adn

• fred_is_fred 6y ago
  If only I had a Beowulf cluster of upvotes to give you. Thanks for the direct link.
• jonahhorowitz 6y ago
  I think since ADN syndicated it off of the Washington Post, this is the better link? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-...
  • kencausey 6y ago
    Thanks, I didn't take the step of actually reading the ADN article since the site didn't like private mode and either the text content didn't load or was removed by javascript before I was able to get rid of it.
• Animats 6y ago
  One more link down, the actual story from The Washington Post: "Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter" [1] "Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, according to four people with independent knowledge of the effort. Their descriptions were confirmed by detailed notes from relatives of one of the teenagers who recorded conversations with him about the efforts." Turning Point Action site:[1] (Not to be confused with several evangelical organizations called Turning Point or some variation thereof, or TurningPoint Inc. (polling software)). [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-... [2] https://www.tpusa.com/ https://www.tpusa.com/