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It wasn't Facebook ads. It was an army of trolls creating, sharing, and upvoting "fake news" articles tricking gullible people into thinking that Hillary molest

It wasn't Facebook ads. It was an army of trolls creating, sharing, and upvoting "fake news" articles tricking gullible people into thinking that Hillary molested children underneath a pizza parlor and tricking other suggestible people into thinking people said the problem was Facebook ads. I was on Reddit at the time, and 90% of commenters believed that the Correct the Record PAC was illegally astroturfing Reddit, despite lacking any evidence, or were trolls pretending that they believed the PAC was astroturfing.

sweetbitter 5y ago
> It was an army of trolls Colloquially known as '/pol/'.
- lern_too_spel 5y ago
  The Senate intelligence committee found otherwise: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu... It explicitly called out GP's misunderstanding: "The Committee found that paid advertisements were not key to the IRA's activity, and moreover, are not alone an accurate measure of the IRA's operational scope, scale, or objectives, despite this aspect of social media being a focus of early press reporting and public awareness."
t-3 5y ago
People didn't need whackjob conspiracies to hate Clinton, she earned that over many years in the public spotlight. If Trump hadn't said so much offensive stuff that directly insulted me on multiple levels, I would have voted for him just to be sure she didn't win. I think a lot of D-leaning people really don't understand how abhorrent the establishment politicians and foreign policy of their party are to anti-war, non-nationalist leftists.
- lern_too_spel 5y ago
  Except Clinton was wildly popular before the trolls amplified attacks against her with crazy conspiracy theories about her emails, having by far the highest approval rating among the field in July 2015. https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating-one-worst.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorabl...
  - t-3 5y ago
    What conspiracy? It's an absolute fact that she illegally used a private email server for official correspondence.
    - lern_too_spel 5y ago
      The conspiracy theories were the wild claims about the contents of the emails. Measured against other political scandals, the fact that she did unclassified email correspondence (as all email correspondence in the State Department is) on her own email server was minor enough to not warrant charges as Comey's investigation concluded. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/state-department-email-breach/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/state-department-ema...

sweetbitter 5y ago

> It was an army of trolls Colloquially known as '/pol/'.

lern_too_spel 5y ago
The Senate intelligence committee found otherwise: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu... It explicitly called out GP's misunderstanding: "The Committee found that paid advertisements were not key to the IRA's activity, and moreover, are not alone an accurate measure of the IRA's operational scope, scale, or objectives, despite this aspect of social media being a focus of early press reporting and public awareness."

t-3 5y ago

People didn't need whackjob conspiracies to hate Clinton, she earned that over many years in the public spotlight. If Trump hadn't said so much offensive stuff that directly insulted me on multiple levels, I would have voted for him just to be sure she didn't win. I think a lot of D-leaning people really don't understand how abhorrent the establishment politicians and foreign policy of their party are to anti-war, non-nationalist leftists.

lern_too_spel 5y ago
Except Clinton was wildly popular before the trolls amplified attacks against her with crazy conspiracy theories about her emails, having by far the highest approval rating among the field in July 2015. https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating-one-worst.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorabl...
- t-3 5y ago
  What conspiracy? It's an absolute fact that she illegally used a private email server for official correspondence.
  - lern_too_spel 5y ago
    The conspiracy theories were the wild claims about the contents of the emails. Measured against other political scandals, the fact that she did unclassified email correspondence (as all email correspondence in the State Department is) on her own email server was minor enough to not warrant charges as Comey's investigation concluded. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/state-department-email-breach/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/state-department-ema...