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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:14 PM Apr 2016

Hillary Clinton PAC Spends $1 Million to Combat Users on Reddit and Facebook

FEC loopholes mean Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clinton's campaign.

Citing "lessons learned from online engagement with 'Bernie Bros,'" a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to "push back against" users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram.

Correct the Record's "Barrier Breakers" project boasts that it has already "addressed more than 5,000 people that have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter" in its press release, which the PAC released on Thursday.

The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.

Some Bernie Sanders-supporting users on Reddit already started to notice the changes on Thursday afternoon.


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http://www.zerocensorship.com/t/uncensored-hillary-clinton/257325-hillary-clinton-pac-spends-1-million-to-combat-users-on-reddit-and-facebook

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Hillary Clinton PAC Spends $1 Million to Combat Users on Reddit and Facebook (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2016 OP
What about DU? jalan48 Apr 2016 #1
Oh no, no DU'er would ever possibly be paid to sew discord! n2doc Apr 2016 #4
Oh yeah! jalan48 Apr 2016 #5
+ a zillion MissDeeds Apr 2016 #7
lol - a few came 840high Apr 2016 #9
Like they say, if you cannot win legitimately.... angstlessk Apr 2016 #2
Paid sock puppets. So grassroots. elehhhhna Apr 2016 #3
Goes along with having a bunch of fake Fbook followers n/t n2doc Apr 2016 #8
YUP it is easy to see dr60omg Apr 2016 #6
Sock Puppet Mistress HRC? Baobab Apr 2016 #10
Look out for Brock trolls posing as Sanders supporters saying racist and sexist things. TIME TO PANIC Apr 2016 #11
Clinton’s Digital Task Force Breaks Barriers To Defend Her Donors eridani Apr 2016 #12
Imagine a Hillary NSA, run by Brock.like being. Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 #13
I've seen a couple of the CtR people on facebook in Bernie groups in the last few days greymouse Apr 2016 #14

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
4. Oh no, no DU'er would ever possibly be paid to sew discord!
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:23 PM
Apr 2016

Perish the thought! We are all pure as the driven snow here, unlike those other places!

TIME TO PANIC

(1,894 posts)
11. Look out for Brock trolls posing as Sanders supporters saying racist and sexist things.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:07 PM
Apr 2016

Nothing is too sleazy for them.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
12. Clinton’s Digital Task Force Breaks Barriers To Defend Her Donors
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 05:37 AM
Apr 2016
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/22/clintons-digital-task-force-breaks-barriers-defend-her-donors

What is particularly troubling about the project to combat users on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram is that users may not realize they are targets of Correct The Record’s information operation. The project apparently has no plan to announce their membership in this task force. They will likely select users, who are popular, and go after them until those users are overwhelmed to a point where their expression of their opinions are drowned out by the task force’s response to their online activity.

Correct The Record may claim this type of project is necessary to defend against “Bernie Bros,” but numerous women, who support Sanders, have come under attack as if they have betrayed their gender by refusing to support Clinton. One Clinton supporter told a Sanders supporter to give up her “woman card” because her support for Sanders showed she “sucked” at being a woman. When actress and model Emily Ratajkowski expressed her support for Sanders, she was told to shut up and go back to being a hot woman. She was even asked to show her tits because that is the “spirit” of socialism.

In other words, while there is plenty of evidence there are anonymous “Bernie Bros” online who say sexist and repulsive things to women who support Clinton, there is a tit-for-tat that can be carried out, showing women who support Sanders have experienced the same kind of abuse online. To put it even more bluntly, women who express their political opinions online are cyber-bullied daily, and manipulating those attacks into a means to cripple an opponent’s political campaign is quite devious.

The Clinton campaign, and in particular, Correct The Record, is so filled with conceit that it thinks, in the middle of the Democratic primary when there are over a thousand pledged delegates to still be awarded, that they can target the “attacks” or criticisms of Clinton by Sanders supporters published on social media and then push campaign propaganda at these same supporters that will convince them to support Clinton. It is incredibly vain, and an example of how the Clinton campaign has believed all along that it is entitled to support from Democratic voters.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
13. Imagine a Hillary NSA, run by Brock.like being.
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 06:22 AM
Apr 2016

Her history of her secrecy is well documented over the years now imagine her in charge of these agencies that are already out of control.


greymouse

(872 posts)
14. I've seen a couple of the CtR people on facebook in Bernie groups in the last few days
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 07:01 AM
Apr 2016

Just joined very recently, post crap, etc. Hillary Clinton, down in the sewage, her natural environment.

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