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21. Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook

Tue May 31, 2016, 07:46 AM

May 2016

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 Record’s “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.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac-spends-1-million-to-correct-commenters-on-reddit-and-facebook.html

Money has been spent online to make HRC look good. It no wonder that there has been a spike in brock-puppet activity.

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Effort to Expose Russia's 'Troll Army' Draws Vicious Retaliation [View all] uhnope May 2016 OP

Hard to sort out our own government propoganda and their paid trolls from Lodestar May 2016 #1

Examples? DetlefK May 2016 #3

how awesome Hillary is. smiley May 2016 #4

And that makes them trolls? DetlefK May 2016 #5

Some of them, yes. MisterFred May 2016 #9

"Some do it" is no proof for "They do it". DetlefK May 2016 #15

Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook d_legendary1 May 2016 #21

they'd be dumb not to counter all the republican trolls pretending to be bernie or bust certainot May 2016 #48

Got any proof that Bernie or Bust posters are all right wing trolls? d_legendary1 May 2016 #58

i didn't say they were all rw trolls certainot May 2016 #61

a million isn't much to spend on a "social media business" Sunlei May 2016 #49

It is if you're paying people $.05 a post d_legendary1 May 2016 #59

info wars Lodestar May 2016 #25

It doesn't hurt to apply some common sense... TipTok May 2016 #50

some Sanders supporters doing precisely the same are trolls as well, yes? LanternWaste May 2016 #52

Yes, some Sanders supporters are trolls. MisterFred May 2016 #64

This message was self-deleted by its author smiley May 2016 #54

Snowden uncovered/released information about this subject. Lodestar May 2016 #23

CIA and NSA programs Lodestar May 2016 #26

That's the only explanation that makes sense to you? Gman May 2016 #29

Demanding evidence is not "a narrow world view". DetlefK May 2016 #32

The cognitive dissonance can be stifling Gman May 2016 #43

I pretend objective evidence is stifling as well... it protects us from rational thought. LanternWaste May 2016 #53

your balderdash would make Sarah Palin proud uhnope May 2016 #6

14 more days of tinfoil theories like this nt geek tragedy May 2016 #7

Pfft. MisterFred May 2016 #10

I can't imagine who would have so much money that they'd waste it hiring geek tragedy May 2016 #11

How about smear artists? Octafish May 2016 #14

There are many here, I believe, who see DU as the center of the liberal political world. Dr Hobbitstein May 2016 #17

now THAT'S an inconvenient truth! nt uhnope May 2016 #38

YOU would. Your tax dollars at work. Lodestar May 2016 #27

Natural News is a crazy-ass nutjob anti-vaxxer website. nt geek tragedy May 2016 #28

Would love to see the list of "legitimate xources" you come up with. Lodestar May 2016 #30

They think Obama is an Islamist terrorist under deep cover. They're crazy. geek tragedy May 2016 #31

you just won the thread uhnope May 2016 #39

republicons have been using paid callers for rw radio for years certainot May 2016 #47

Yes there are paid Russian trolls on this site dbackjon Jun 2016 #66

Decades-old soviet propaganda-technique, now brought back with RT and internet-trolls. DetlefK May 2016 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Turbineguy May 2016 #8

Why not? MisterFred May 2016 #12

I think it is different. Adrahil May 2016 #16

Well, it's true that the origin of their bias is different. MisterFred May 2016 #63

It is much different metroins May 2016 #19

There is more than CNN, Fox News and RT on the internet... Have you tried: DetlefK May 2016 #22

Yes to some of those. MisterFred May 2016 #62

Clinton SuperPac Admits to Paying Internet Trolls Lodestar May 2016 #34

And that makes russian trolling and russian propaganda okay? DetlefK May 2016 #35

Putin went all out old school 'soviet union' on media & internet access. Government took over. Sunlei May 2016 #13

What are their DU usernames? iandhr May 2016 #18

Quite often it is "name removed" FSogol May 2016 #20

lol iandhr May 2016 #24

Not often enough Democat May 2016 #33

True. Bradical79 May 2016 #60

Post removed Post removed May 2016 #36

Da Comrade. MohRokTah May 2016 #40

red baiting worked in the 50's, but it was bull shit then and it's bull shit now. ish of the hammer May 2016 #41

the russian political system today is an oligarchy... ish of the hammer May 2016 #42

We're a democratic republic, Putin. get your face out of your cellphone. Sunlei May 2016 #45

why are you calling me Putin? is that an insult of some kind? ish of the hammer May 2016 #46

It'S YoUr SeLeCtIve CaPs pUtIn. Would you please return the thousands of items, the nazi loot Sunlei May 2016 #51

ask the Swiss to return the Jews money, ask the American military to return von Braun's ish of the hammer May 2016 #55

HeRe's some MoRe FoOd PuTiN. TrY to SenD Me to SiBerA. Sunlei May 2016 #56

not much sense here, sunny boy. ish of the hammer May 2016 #57

I think you do not realize that you just got destroyed uhnope Jun 2016 #65

So, Putin didn't take over Russias entire media last year place it under government authority AND Sunlei May 2016 #44

But Snowden + Greenwald said we're the only country to do this!! Blue_Tires May 2016 #37