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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 08:39 AM Apr 2017

Don't let them Gaslight you. Don't let them frame the narrative

I am thinking more and more that part of the reason ditto heads have such a disciplined message (and they gish gallop and they gaslight) is that a lot of them are bots.

Throw EVERY fucking thing at those mother fuckers.

If they have no obligation to the truth, you have no obligation to treat them any differently.

Stop bringing knives to a gun fight.

Just a friendly reminder...

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Don't let them Gaslight you. Don't let them frame the narrative (Original Post) LaydeeBug Apr 2017 OP
I think most are bots mcar Apr 2017 #1
and the media is really the greedia, and right wing slanted for DECADES now LaydeeBug Apr 2017 #2
I took a month off mcar Apr 2017 #4
Gas lighting is part of it. Stop watching the news. You will be better informed. I promise. nt LaydeeBug Apr 2017 #6
Yes the bots are everywhere FakeNoose Apr 2017 #3
it's crazy. we have to fight back. nt LaydeeBug Apr 2017 #5
 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
2. and the media is really the greedia, and right wing slanted for DECADES now
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 08:45 AM
Apr 2017

They don't care about the facts, as long as they get the ratings.

I have not watched a minute of news since the coup.

mcar

(42,302 posts)
4. I took a month off
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:27 AM
Apr 2017

but am back at it. I pick and choose, though.

What strikes me is that they have been doing a better job of reporting the atrocities. But they want so badly for this to be normal (e.g. the praise of that stupid speech). And, of course, they love them some war.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
6. Gas lighting is part of it. Stop watching the news. You will be better informed. I promise. nt
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 12:21 AM
Apr 2017

FakeNoose

(32,633 posts)
3. Yes the bots are everywhere
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:09 AM
Apr 2017

Last fall, I got bot messages that were almost identical word-for-word from several different blogs.

The blogs themselves were in no way connected to each other, it's just that the bots came into anything that had a commenting section that wasn't monitored. It was obvious only to people who jumped around to different blogs. If you stayed on the same blog you only saw those comments and you probably thought "Oh my, there are so many people that think this way."

No - there weren't that many people. It was a bot program that created fake identities and grabbed pre-written comments from an archive somewhere. That's why the comments all started sounding alike, because they were. If you challenged them or asked them a question (as I did several times) they never responded. They were only programmed to reply a certain way to things that another person wrote. If I wrote anything anti-Trump they immediately replied with a pro-Trump blurb of some kind. After awhile it wears you down!

Many blogs have already found those bots and kicked them out, but a few haven't.
That's why it's possible to still see those comment now. I just saw a few on Salon the other day.

If anyone reading this has a blog with commenting, be sure to monitor and ban the pro-Trump bots.


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