Nancy Mace deployed burner accounts to counter online criticism, staffers claim

Is using fake/burner accounts acceptable as a Public Relations tool?

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Dutch Uncle

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TBH, I don't have a problem with this although I expect hypocrites to defend or attack it based upon political affiliation.

Nancy Mace is smart, good-looking and has a master's degree in journalism and mass communication. She started her own PR firm so she knows a lot about mass communication and PR.

What's your verdict? Yea or Nay?

Nancy Mace deployed burner accounts to counter online criticism, staffers claim
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) used and directed staff to make burner accounts in order to bolster her online image, according to a Wired report.

The South Carolina congresswoman chairs the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, knows how to code, and is one of the more computer-savvy members of the House.

Former Mace staffers suggested to Wired that she and her staff boosted her social media presence with burner accounts designed to promote her. “We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren’t true — even Reddit forums,” an unnamed former Mace staffer said.

"We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," they added.

Wired reported that Mace used her computer skills to put "up burner accounts on a variety of social media platforms to monitor what people were saying about her and bolster her image."

Mace, on her personal account, often replies to both supporters and detractors. "I work hard for SC every day. Engaging with you IS my job," Mace replied to one X user, who wrote, "When your state representative is more worried about engagements than her job representing you...."


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TBH, I don't have a problem with this although I expect hypocrites to defend or attack it based upon political affiliation.

Nancy Mace is smart, good-looking and has a master's degree in journalism and mass communication. She started her own PR firm so she knows a lot about mass communication and PR.

What's your verdict? Yea or Nay?

Nancy Mace deployed burner accounts to counter online criticism, staffers claim
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) used and directed staff to make burner accounts in order to bolster her online image, according to a Wired report.

The South Carolina congresswoman chairs the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, knows how to code, and is one of the more computer-savvy members of the House.

Former Mace staffers suggested to Wired that she and her staff boosted her social media presence with burner accounts designed to promote her. “We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren’t true — even Reddit forums,” an unnamed former Mace staffer said.

"We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," they added.

Wired reported that Mace used her computer skills to put "up burner accounts on a variety of social media platforms to monitor what people were saying about her and bolster her image."


Mace, on her personal account, often replies to both supporters and detractors. "I work hard for SC every day. Engaging with you IS my job," Mace replied to one X user, who wrote, "When your state representative is more worried about engagements than her job representing you...."


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Mace is mentally ill. She needs help.
 
Mace is mentally ill. She needs help.
That can be said of all MAGAts, but she's actually done some good work.

An example is the South Carolina abortion bill:
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Tuesday decried a South Carolina bill that would criminalize abortion as a homicide and allow women who undergo the procedure to become eligible for the death penalty in the state, criticizing the GOP for not finding a more middle-ground approach to the contentious issue....

...Mace, who has said she was raped at age 16, has taken a more moderate stance on abortion, distancing herself from many in the Republican party. She said the GOP “learned nothing” from the November midterms, when GOP candidates lost a number of key races and failed to take control of the Senate, if they continue with the party’s current abortion stance.

“And so you see these conversations happening and actual legislation being filed. And it’s like, what the hell is going on here? This is not right, and certainly doesn’t show any compassion to women. And we as Republicans, as a party, learned nothing from the midterm election if that is the playbook going forward,” she said....

...“You heard that right. Some S.C. lawmakers are so pro-life, they want to extend the death penalty to women who have been raped. I think we may have to disagree after all,” she wrote.
 
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