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I was primarily referring to Sally Albright (the example with the most publicly available evidence). She is a political mercenary who was outed as operating a
by cwkoss 5y ago
I was primarily referring to Sally Albright (the example with the most publicly available evidence). She is a political mercenary who was outed as operating a large bot farm using identities of people who died. Funded by ShareBlue to attack people critical of HRC, then Biden.
Arguably, she created the "donut twitter" faction - which grew past the bot accounts she controlled.
Though I'm sure this tactic is used by every political leaning to some extent. I think her example is particularly egregious because she is being funded by the DNC apparatus - not just a lone wolf.
- ttt0 5y agoShareBlue, CorrectTheRecord wasn't targeting just leftists.
- Smithalicious 5y agoSaying shareblue/CTR, a leftist astroturf organization, is "attacking leftists" is incredibly misleading. They attack towards both sides of the political spectrum from themselves, but there's much more to the right of them than these is to the left.
- cwkoss 5y agoI think it's misleading to call ShareBlue "leftist" - they are 'left' to the extent that Joe Biden is 'left', but leftist typically refers to "the radical left" or marxists or democratic socialists in modern political discourse. Yes, they attack to both sides, but their anti-right operations are pretty transparent. Their anti-leftist operations tend to be clandestine, presumably because DNC funds used to attack "their own" voters would be politically toxic.