The cons hypocrisy knows no bounds. How many centrists and liberals have been accused of being paid shills on here? https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign. 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. The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media. But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts, though nowhere disclosing their relationship with Turning Point Action or the digital firm brought in to oversee the day-to-day activity. One user included a link to Turning Point USA’s website in his Twitter profile until The Washington Post began asking questions about the activity. In response to questions from The Post, Twitter on Tuesday suspended at least 20 accounts involved in the activity for “platform manipulation and spam.” Facebook also removed a number of accounts as part of what the company said is an ongoing investigation. The effort generated thousands of posts this summer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an examination by The Post and an assessment by an independent specialist in data science. Nearly 4,500 tweets containing identical content that were identified in the analysis probably represent a fraction of the overall output. The months-long effort by the tax-exempt nonprofit is among the most ambitious domestic influence campaigns uncovered this election cycle, said experts tracking the evolution of deceptive online tactics. One parent of two teenagers involved in the effort, Robert Jason Noonan, said his 16- and 17-year-old daughters were being paid by Turning Point to push “conservative points of view and values” on social media. He said they have been working with the group since about June, adding in an interview, “The job is theirs until they want to quit or until the election.” Four years ago, the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency amplified Turning Point’s right-wing memes as part of Moscow’s sweeping interference aimed at boosting Trump, according to expert assessments prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee. One report pointed specifically to the use of Turning Point content as evidence of Russia’s “deep knowledge of American culture, media, and influencers.” Those recruited to participate in the campaign were lifting the language from a shared online document, according to Noonan and other people familiar with the setup. They posted the same lines a limited number of times to avoid automated detection by the technology companies, these people said. They also were instructed to edit the beginning and ending of each snippet to differentiate the posts slightly, according to the notes from the recorded conversation with a participant. Noonan said his daughters sometimes work from an office in the Phoenix area and are classified as independent contractors, not earning “horrible money” but also not making minimum wage. Relatives of another person involved said the minor is paid an hourly rate and can score bonuses if his posts spur higher engagement. Jake Hoffman, president and chief executive of the Phoenix-based digital marketing firm, confirmed the online workers were classified as contractors but declined to comment further on “private employment matters.” He did not respond to a question about the office setup. Addressing the use of centralized documents to prepare the messages, Hoffman said in written responses, “Every working team within my agency works out of dozens of collaborative documents every day, as is common with all dynamic marketing agencies or campaign phone banks for example.” The messages have appeared mainly as replies to news articles about politics and public health posted on social media. They seek to cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process, asserting that Democrats are using mail balloting to steal the election — “thwarting the will of the American people,” they alleged. The posts also play down the threat from covid-19, which claimed the life of Turning Point’s co-founder Bill Montgomery in July. One post, which was spread across social media dozens of times, suggested baselessly that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inflating the death toll from the disease. (Most experts say deaths are probably undercounted.) Another pushed for schools to reopen, reasoning, “President Trump is not worried because younger people do very well while dealing with covid.” Much of the blitz was aimed squarely at Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee. The former vice president, asserted one message, “is being controlled by behind the scenes individuals who want to take America down the dangerous path towards socialism.” By seeking to rebut mainstream news articles, the operation illustrates the extent to which some online political activism is designed to discredit the media.
I'm frankly surprised the RNC isn't actively running their own ShariaBlue. I guess TP USA is their ShariaBlue and they finally have enough young people to start their own troll farm. Good for them. The right has been winning the meme war handily. This will surely secure their future victories in the battlefield defined by memetic warfare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record Now go back to reddit with your [CITATION NEEDED]. These are left wing troll farms and if you go back to 2016 you can see hallmark troll farm activity on twitter, reddit, and other fringe sites. Just like TP USA, left wing super PACs have a vested interest in controlling the narrative. Surprise, surprise.
Gave you a hesitant like for bringing facts and not just feelings like 90% of the retards on here, but then trying to link me to inceldom armpit reddit. 1st link was surely a troll farm, 2nd one seems to have been more of a spin operation, subtle difference I suppose.
Translation: I have Tsing on ignore but read his posts anyway and this is my way of addressing the fact that you owned me in this thread but I still want to take a shot at him without being obvious about it. You know, H4M, you put me on ignore because of the beatdowns I was giving you repeatedly. It isn't like you can claim I was profane to you or something like that - because you regularly engage in folks on the right who are far more insulting that I ever was with you. But that's OK, I like it this way. I can take shots at your absurdity and still know you read my posts - but won't be able to answer directly. Best of both worlds.
shout out to all the peeps on ignore who follow me around like lost puppies. I'd surely have forgotten about half these threads w/o your bumps.
No problem. We enjoy it as well and will continue to bump all the threads that make you look like the moron you are (which is just about all of them).
Here4BS should know what a troll is because he is one. All he does is troll all day? A Canadian who is hell bent on interfering in the internal affairs of the US? Stay in your country and fix it. Not like Canada does not have any problems? We Americans will solve our problems and have a great President Donald Trump to do so. You have your soy boy Justin Trudeau and if he is not doing his job, fire him. That is what you should do.