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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:43AM
Your UID doesn't really mean anything. Maybe you bought that account. Maybe you hacked into it. Maybe you sign up for every website you see as soon as you see it. Maybe you're really fickle and jump sites as soon as any tiny annoyance occurs.
The fact that you're posting on here saying look how great and awesome I am makes you less so. Please do leave. I don't want to read a bunch of posts from people who are full of themselves. If you don't like the article, don't post. The site should naturally post articles similar to those that get more posts. By posting that you dislike this article, there's now two extra posts counting for more articles like it.