Pro-Trump group pays teens to post online
Source: Chron News
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Charlie Kirk, co-founder and executive director of Turning Point USA,
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 Donald 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.
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RainCaster
(10,853 posts)WTF-- why would youngsters want to have DFT reelected? He will screw up their future.
Thekaspervote
(32,750 posts)paleotn
(17,901 posts)can't see past next week.
Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)This is new. Down to recruiting teens now?? Voter suppression, dismantling USPS, closing voting stations, Russian trolls and interference, election and voting misinformation from the orange goon and still not enough!!! Send in the teens!
Sending drumpf home to a bankrupt trump tower for good is going to be so so sweet! We must win!
IronLionZion
(45,403 posts)these people are dangerously dumb
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)think about ways to lower their own taxes and elect those who will lower their taxes.
Initech
(100,054 posts)thenelm1
(852 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 17, 2020, 10:26 PM - Edit history (2)
I remembered his name immediately and his involvement in some type of rat-fucking scheme in New Hampshire. He was involved with Turning Point and per Wiki, "First appearing on November 21, 2016, Turning Point USA also operates a website called Professor Watchlist. Kirk has said the site is dedicated to documenting and exposing college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."
Check him in wiki - either with Turning Point or under his name. Total asshole.
moose65
(3,166 posts)Usually when I see pictures of him, I wonder if they've been photoshopped! His head is too big for his face (or his face is too small for his head)!
paleotn
(17,901 posts)Copying the tactics of their masters in mother Russia.
JDC
(10,121 posts)Blue Owl
(50,325 posts)Grins
(7,203 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,168 posts)Now there may have been more Russian influence in years past, they have a lot of experience, for decades in a lot of countries. But they've also shown America's own native trolls how to do it and do it more effectively. I'll bet the GOP has hired the largest troll farm yet for this election.