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Super PAC's such as Share Blue (now known as The American Independent) weaponized online shaming through troll farms. David Brock of Share Blue had a confidenti
by bubblematrix 4y ago
Super PAC's such as Share Blue (now known as The American Independent) weaponized online shaming through troll farms. David Brock of Share Blue had a confidential memo leaked that outlined how weak Democratic support was in online comment sections, hence - they used troll farms to counter negative comments towards them. It annoyed Share Blue how Conservative comments were mostly grass-root.
A similar Super PAC for online comment trolling was known as CTR (Correct the Record) - backed by Hillary Clinton. So if you posted a negative comment about her online back before the election, you would often see these blank troll accounts leave you a friendly little reply.
It's hard to talk about this in tech because we, as a blob, enable it. It helps our companies growth and bottom line.
Dark truth.
- causi 4y ago[flagged]
- vorpalhex 4y ago
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agohttps://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-... Until such behaviors are made too expensive, illegal, or difficult, both parties and well enough funded organizations and individuals (see reputation management agencies) will all engage in this astro turfing. If you don’t like it when the other political party does but you don’t care when it’s your own political party, there are words for that.
- bubblematrix 4y agoI'm not interested in what-aboutism, I'm simply outlining the $100+ million dollars invested by DNC Super PAC's into weaponized shaming/trolling.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agoAwesome. Let’s make that illegal. You on board? Will you still be on board when McConnell obstructs that or does it only bother you when democrats do this? Because I’m bothered by it when anyone does it.
- bubblematrix 4y agoI have almost zero knowledge of politics, but I now see where your what-aboutism reply came and continue from.
- jrajav 4y agoQuite a provocative take you have here, given that the most well-documented scandal of the 2016 election was astroturfing by Russian troll farms in collusion with the GOP.
- bubblematrix 4y agoThat's a good point, how the DNC can behave just like a nation state threat actor. For those interested in how Share Blue spun up some of it's troll farming, here is a great write-up: https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/ https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/
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