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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think the DNC needs to hire a thousand anti-trolls to post on social media - Youtube
Twitter, Facebook and in the comments pages of right winged propagation sites like Breitbart and Info-wars.
If you look at some of these places there are so many posts that look the same. "I am praying for our great president Trump" for example.
Even if they were given short progressive FACTS to post and re-post we could at least have a hand in this dis-information game.
I cannot see us winning another presidential election unless these fake news and fake trolls are contained. (Also we need to use an algorithm to get real news to the top of Google for a fucking change)
It may not even take a thousand people, (maybe a couple hundred college students part time?). I have made anti-Trump posts with a link and just kept clicking on pro-Trump videos and pasting them as the latest comment. It does not take that long to bombard a lot of pro-Trump and racist videos if you just keep pasting. I know that is what the Russian bots do
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)but we are competing with troll farms
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)they would probably not even have to pay them (it has been done before you know). Mueller has had thousands of people offering their free services and sending in resumes. I am sure many would volunteer to help the DNC.
Voltaire2
(12,995 posts)=== that was a joke ====
It actually isn't a bad idea.
johnsonsnap
(56 posts)Why have we stopped our fight?
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)(The type that Frank Lutz (?) did for the GOP....like labeling the estate tax the death tax)
Anyway, people who are good at swaying others would be a great help for us who want to help spread the actual truth
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)ETA I mean for the people to post on social media. I don't mean DU is full of RW trolls.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)because I think they consider this the home of the Anti-Christ. We need to take the message to them.
Read the comments after this video with Jim Bakkar, (convicted about 45 counts of fraud and released from jail 1994). They are deluded people.
I bet a lot of them don't even know Bakkar was in jail for stealing money from his parishioners. Maybe they should know.
More importantly, this woman is Trump's "spiritual advisor" and gave a great "speech prayer" at his inauguration.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I don't mean going over to Breitbart or FR, I mean going to the 'neutral' sites that attract people of all political persuasions. Maybe even Reddit (not 4Chan though).
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)are. But I also remind myself that a lot of these people are really Russian bots still.