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Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald and 4chan messaged boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
In this latest incarnation, multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.
Polls that were not open to public voting consistently put Clinton ahead of Trump. In a flash poll by Public Policy Polling, Clinton led Trump 51 to 40. A CNN/ORC poll conducted immediately following the debate found significantly stronger support for Clinton, who topped Trump 62 to 27.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:55PM
Alt-right are fascists of all ages, not just "millennials".
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:05PM
I guess.
I feel like the term was invented to invoke the people who believe in all the stupid shit religious fundamentalists do, but are atheists.
Or the ones who buy into all the hardcore social controls of traditionalism but smoke pot.
Or they want to remove all the "other" races, but don't want to be removed themselves for being the wrong kind of white.
I get what you're saying, inasmuch as being a giant piece of shit seems to be the most important and central element of the alt-right.
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Thursday September 29 2016, @03:15AM
I can't help but feel like the fascist movements of the 20th century grew out of using Nietzsche's ideas as a way of justifying contemptible theories of superiority and the justification of force. This century, Ayn Rand's John Galt mythos seems to be the new epicenter.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.