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Current Affairs published an in-depth editorial on recent revelations about a $1 million astroturfng campaign by Correct the Record:
Astroturfing makes me angry. It should make you angry. It should make you fucking well see red. It's marketing evolved into something incredibly scary, sophisticated, and evil. It's essentially thought warfare, or psychological warfare, which takes away much of what was supposed to make the internet a new and beautiful frontier of communication. Worse yet, if you actually identify and approach these operatives, they'll gaslight you and deny that they are such an operative. These are people who are paid to psychologically abuse you. Do you get this? It's an ugly and evil thing, and not only does it take away our ability to take information and fact at face value, but it takes away our ability to take opinions, feelings, and personal stances at face value as sincere and legitimate.
takyon: For some additional context, "Hillary-supporting super PAC invests $1 million to hit back at online Clinton critics":
Correct the Record, a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton's bid to become US president, has promised to invest more than $1 million to respond to users criticizing its candidate on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and other social media services. The super PAC says its new "Barrier Breakers digital task force" will to respond "quickly and forcefully to negative attacks and false narratives found online," in addition to thanking major supporters and "committed superdelegates" directly.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @02:13AM
Because "triggered much" is an insult intended for conservatives.
Are you so deep in your bubble that you don't even realize when you parrot your tribe's memes?
(Score: 3, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday April 26 2016, @06:34AM
Oops. Looks like "triggered" triggered something here :-)
I'm usually not counted to the conservatives (nor would I count there myself) and don't think I sympathize with most of frojacks posts. But while choice of words can indicate a bias, the way a message is expressed does not necessarily invalidate the message itself.
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @10:20AM
Who said anything about his targeting of the message at liberals invalidating the message?
The message was idiotic to begin with - that astroturfing is A-OK.
The fact that he unintentionally revealed his reasoning for that idiocy as being basic partisanship just made it crystal clear that there was no meaningful logic supporting his conclusions. For that he deserves twofold criticism - criticism for an idiotic premise and criticism for being so blinded by his own partisanship that he could not recognize the idiocy.