Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook
I don't remember hearing about this at the time, but it was brought up by the TYT guys today.
"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 in a press release that it has already “addressed more than 5,000 people that have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.” The PAC released this 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.
“This explains why my inbox turned to cancer on Tuesday,” wrote user OKarizee. “Been a member of reddit for almost 4 years and never experienced anything like it. In fact, in all my years on the internet I’ve never experienced anything like it.”"
Posting here because there is the possibility that this same infrastructure gets remobilized this time.
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Wait, so she really was paying people to post for her online?
The optics are terrible and basic human psychology means it almost certainly backfires.
At least we now know how a certain poster manages to put up 83 comments/day.
You 48 and you still posting on the coli, ugh
I never got this as a burn.
I mean come on fool, my knees have gone out, I can't ball any more, I'm happily married so I ain't out there chasing anything, got a steady and secure job, half the time I'm posting here while my baby girl naps on my chest.
If you 25 in the prime of your life and you're spending time on the freaking internet instead, ain't it you that got the problem?