Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm'..

[christiefan915]

...prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter. Vile trumpers have no shame.

"One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.

The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign. Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, according to four people with independent knowledge of the effort. Their descriptions were confirmed by detailed notes from relatives of one of the teenagers who recorded conversations with him about the efforts.

The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media. But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts, though nowhere disclosing their relationship with Turning Point Action or the digital firm brought in to oversee the day-to-day activity.

In response to questions from The Post, Twitter on Tuesday suspended at least 20 accounts involved in the activity for “platform manipulation and spam.” Facebook also removed a number of accounts as part of what the company said is an ongoing investigation...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...49c_story.html

[BartenderElite]

Post-truth America.

How's everyone liking it?

[christiefan915]

Friends of yours?

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Then there are all those paid antifa/blm thugs and of course fb and twitter bots and state media disseminating lies and far left propaganda.

[christiefan915]

Then there are all those paid antifa/blm thugs and of course fb and twitter bots and state media disseminating lies and far left propaganda.

Link up.

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Link up.

You must be 16 years old. Don't remember times when their own teams win big games and they rampage their own cities after the big win.
These were not quiet conservatives with normal happy reactions.

[christiefan915]

You must be 16 years old. Don't remember times when their own teams win big games and they rampage their own cities after the big win.
These were not quiet conservatives with normal happy reactions.

So you have nothing but anecdotes. Surprised not surprised.

[Trumpet]

Then there are all those paid antifa/blm thugs and of course fb and twitter bots and state media disseminating lies and far left propaganda.

Sounds like you're parroting the same lies that Trump spews out.

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So you have nothing but anecdotes. Surprised not surprised.

No. You have no memory.

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Sounds like you're parroting the same lies that Trump spews out.

No. Just repeating all the garbage you leftys post in here using twitter as a link to "news."

[Trumpet]

...prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter. Vile trumpers have no shame.

"One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.

The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign. Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, according to four people with independent knowledge of the effort. Their descriptions were confirmed by detailed notes from relatives of one of the teenagers who recorded conversations with him about the efforts.

The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media. But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts, though nowhere disclosing their relationship with Turning Point Action or the digital firm brought in to oversee the day-to-day activity.

In response to questions from The Post, Twitter on Tuesday suspended at least 20 accounts involved in the activity for “platform manipulation and spam.” Facebook also removed a number of accounts as part of what the company said is an ongoing investigation...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...49c_story.html

So what have we got now the Trump-Jugend????

[christiefan915]

So what have we got now the Trump-Jugend????

They'll use anybody they can, even underage kids.

[Trumpet]

They'll use anybody they can, even underage kids.

That's scary.

[christiefan915]

That's scary.

Scary and desperate.

[christiefan915]

No. Just repeating all the garbage you leftys post in here using twitter as a link to "news."

These kids must be friends of yours. I don't see you condemning the trump campaign for using them.