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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:00 PM Apr 2016

Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls

http://m.slashdot.org/story/310281

An anonymous reader quotes a report from US Uncut:


A Super PAC headed by a longtime Clinton operative is spending $1 million to hire online trolls to "correct" Bernie Sanders' supporters on social media. Correct The Record (CTR), which is operated by Clinton attack dog and new owner of Blue Nation Review David Brock, launched a new initiative this week called "Barrier Breakers 2016" for the purpose of debating supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders -- or "Bernie Bros," as they're referred to in Correct the Record's press official release -- on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other social media platforms. The "Barrier Breakers" will also publicly thank Hillary Clinton's superdelegates and fans for supporting her campaign. The paid trolls are professional communicators, coming from public relations and media backgrounds. "The task force staff's backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize," CTR stated.
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Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (Original Post) G_j Apr 2016 OP
good.... artyteacher Apr 2016 #1
Second your good. Bobbie Jo Apr 2016 #5
Only the Sanders... JSup Apr 2016 #19
+1 itsrobert Apr 2016 #17
What do you mean by "caught?" Like there is something illegal going on? nt Jitter65 Apr 2016 #2
*Psssst*.... TheCowsCameHome Apr 2016 #3
well someone can get "caught" G_j Apr 2016 #14
Brock has no ethics. HE'S USING GUTTER POLITICS shalafi Apr 2016 #4
Are we really surprised? Ned_Devine Apr 2016 #6
a lot of that was simply because they weren't expecting a fundmental challenge MisterP Apr 2016 #15
My surprised meter Aerows Apr 2016 #7
I have been voting since the Eisenhower days and virgogal Apr 2016 #8
Is this the same Hillary who says she doesn't like the "tone" and doesn't like money in politics? Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2016 #9
She's an authoritarian who believes her money can shut down dissent on the internet BernieforPres2016 Apr 2016 #10
Volunteers always hate the paid Staff. Octafish Apr 2016 #11
So that explains all those new accounts on DU pinebox Apr 2016 #12
Maybe So colsohlibgal Apr 2016 #16
I'll just drop this here and collect my 0.08... Buns_of_Fire Apr 2016 #13
Who could have predicted or guessed this? merrily Apr 2016 #18
They have been everywhere.... KoKo Apr 2016 #20
The Ready for Hillary Alumni are talented professionals. Octafish Apr 2016 #22
....! KoKo Apr 2016 #25
exactly G_j Apr 2016 #23
Geez, I hope they didn't waste any of that money here at DU; the Hill Shills here are incompetent. lagomorph777 Apr 2016 #21
"Caught?" Lucinda Apr 2016 #24
Where do I sign up? Mike__M Apr 2016 #26

Bobbie Jo

(14,341 posts)
5. Second your good.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:07 PM
Apr 2016

It's about time, IMO...


The RF'ing variety have already covered a lot of ground. It's about time for some pushback.

JSup

(740 posts)
19. Only the Sanders...
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:36 PM
Apr 2016

...is allowed to purchase an online presence, as only He is immune to the corrupting influence of the internet.

 

shalafi

(53 posts)
4. Brock has no ethics. HE'S USING GUTTER POLITICS
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:05 PM
Apr 2016

Clinton supporters should see why we continue to back Bernie. Bernie and his supporters doesn't even do this kind of shit.

 

Ned_Devine

(3,146 posts)
6. Are we really surprised?
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:10 PM
Apr 2016

This campaign has been gross from the get go. I found it a little odd that before she even started running, they put out the "Ready For Hillary" movement, while Obama was just into his second term. I thought it was a little early to say we were ready for her and it was right after so many democrats ran away from Obama in the mid terms. It made me think they were saying, "Well, this guy can't help us win the mid terms, are you ready for Hillary yet?"

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
15. a lot of that was simply because they weren't expecting a fundmental challenge
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:53 PM
Apr 2016

the race was expected to be against Biden, if that: Sanders would just be Kucinich 2.0, and get even less, because of their view that voting matched what the voters wanted: people kept voting for an econ-right social-center Dem party because they wanted econ-right social-center

Clinton only decided in 14 because the polls had her at 80%: she did NOT want to redo 08 again since that was utterly traumatic and just reinforced her bunker mentality

 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
8. I have been voting since the Eisenhower days and
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:14 PM
Apr 2016

I have never been so disgusted over what the political process has become.

It's about power.

Period.

The people are an unimportant afterthought.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
9. Is this the same Hillary who says she doesn't like the "tone" and doesn't like money in politics?
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:18 PM
Apr 2016

Surely not!

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
10. She's an authoritarian who believes her money can shut down dissent on the internet
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:28 PM
Apr 2016

Her paranoia combined with the NSA data collection revealed by Snowden could make her a nightmare for civil liberties as President. I don't even want to imagine it.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
16. Maybe So
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:07 PM
Apr 2016

The suspicious ones are not hard to find, some surely have seemed like HRC operatives. Voluminous posts here then gone then often back later. Like Hillary has a squad of them.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,181 posts)
13. I'll just drop this here and collect my 0.08...
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:39 PM
Apr 2016


Just deposit it to my account, please. I'll be in touch.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
18. Who could have predicted or guessed this?
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:35 PM
Apr 2016


Lest we forget: she was caught very early on having hired a bunch of facebookers, too.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
20. They have been everywhere....
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:41 PM
Apr 2016

Comment Sections at all the Mainstream Media News websites, that allow comments, and in Blogs,
Social Media. They are different from the usual RW'ers who post crude comments that most people ignore. They are literate and are skillful in their presentation--although their similar Talking Points in their Bernie attacks make them identifiable as getting their information from the same source. They come in waves focusing on the Bernie bashing topic/misinformation of the day" from their paymaster.


The paid trolls are professional communicators, coming from public relations and media backgrounds. "The task force staff's backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize
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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
22. The Ready for Hillary Alumni are talented professionals.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:47 PM
Apr 2016


They stand out, they're absolutely beaming! Or is it spelled Beemer?

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
21. Geez, I hope they didn't waste any of that money here at DU; the Hill Shills here are incompetent.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:44 PM
Apr 2016

Seriously, wouldn't you be pissed if you paid somebody to post this all the time instead of thoughts:

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Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
24. "Caught?"
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 05:15 PM
Apr 2016


Yeah... if you call making a huge announcement that they are going to be pushing back being "caught"

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