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Related: About this forumHillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook
Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to Correct Commenters on Reddit and Facebook
FEC loopholes mean Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clintons campaign.
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 Records 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 Ive never experienced anything like it.
Correct the Record, which has received $5 million this campaign season and has spent almost $4.5 million of it, according to OpenSecrets.org, outlined its strategy against swarms of anonymous attackers in a press release.
While Hillary Clinton fights to break down barriers and bring America together, the Barrier Breakers 2016 digital task force will serve as a resource for supporters looking for positive content and push-back to share with their online progressive communities, as well as thanking prominent supporters and committed superdelegates on social media, the statement read.
Due to FEC loopholes, the Sunlight Foundations Libby Watson found this year that Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clintons campaign, despite rules that typically disallow political campaigns from working directly with PACs.
SuperPACs arent supposed to coordinate with candidates. The whole reasoning behind (Supreme Court decision) Citizens United rests on (PACs) being independent, but Correct the Record claims it can coordinate, Watson told The Daily Beast. Its not totally clear what their reasoning is, but it seems to be that material posted on the Internet for freelike, blogsdoesnt count as an independent expenditure.
Watson previously worked at Brocks Media Matters for America, where their whole mission is to debunk conservative misinformation [and] a lot of that ends up being defending Hillary Clinton, but says shes never seen anything like this initiative.
Usually places like MMFA and CTR are defending her against the media and established figures. This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online, she said. I dont know that theyve done anything like this before.
Campaign Legal Center lawyer Paul Ryan (who bears no relation to the Speaker of the House) told Time magazine in September of last year that Correct The Record is creating new ways to undermine campaign regulation. Watson used Ryans complaint in the Sunlight Foundations report about the most influential organizations working behind the scenes for the Clinton camp.
Campaign finance lawyers are not that impressed with [CTRs] logic, but they can get away with it because the [Federal Election Commission] is deadlocked and does nothing, she said.
Barrier Breakers 2016 is focused on pushing out positive content to Hillary supporters online to counter negative attacks and false narratives, Correct the Records communications director, Elizabeth Shappell, told The Daily Beast. The expanded task force was established in anticipation of the general election.
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Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook (Original Post)
Mira
Apr 2016
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. Gotta "bring them to heel". n/t
Trajan
(19,089 posts)2. That's funny
Because those I have seen are getting blasted online ... Mass abuse and ignores heaped upon their blessed pointy heads ...
I'm guessing they are getting paid less than $12 per hour ...
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)3. The bird on the back of the monitor knows what day it is.
pinebox
(5,761 posts)4. lol That isn't what you think that is
That's "DickButt" lol
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dick-butt
LAS14
(13,783 posts)5. So GLAD to hear it!!!!!!
This makes me feel more worth while in my ongoing effort to put a Hillary presence in GDP.