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posted by takyon on Tuesday April 26 2016, @01:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-my-hundred-million-cents dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @02:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @02:41AM (#337264)

    ah, the witty woman with the trigger on the flamebait and troll mods :DDD

    see, even idiots survive evolution, mainly because others fight for them or because nobody sees them as a threat.
    at the end of the day, though, not all, or even many, of the fighters are happy with the dead comrades and idiot survivors.

    the only happy fighters are the ones with idiot, but really good looking, wives...

    to put an argument into your idiot woman mouth, with fighters i mean marines with guns, since men with guns are the créme of civilization.

    btw, idiot woman, did i mention muscle? thats is the shit... without muscle u are nothing.

    i hope i have provided some things for u to mod.

    /zug

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @03:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @03:34AM (#337283)

    did you forget your password or something zugnub?
    or did your muscles just get so big that your fingers can't type it anymore?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @05:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @05:38PM (#337571)

    the only happy fighters are the ones with idiot, but really good looking, wives...

    I just bet you charm the socks off the ladies, you manly man, you! Haven't you got a Nazi rally you need to be getting to by now, zug?