Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook

[FreakinDJ]

Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to “push back against” users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram.


Correct the Record’s “Barrier Breakers” project boasts in a press release that it has already “addressed more than 5,000 people that have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.” The PAC released this on Thursday.


The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.

“This explains why my inbox turned to cancer on Tuesday,” wrote user OKarizee. “Been a member of reddit for almost 4 years and never experienced anything like it. In fact, in all my years on the internet I’ve never experienced anything like it.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac-spends-1-million-to-correct-commenters-on-reddit-and-facebook.html

I wonder if they are blowing up Skinner's inbox telling him to "Call It"

It is amazing how a "Democratic Campaign" has turned into controlling Free Speech and WHO gets to vote

[Hoyt]

1. I don't think $1 million is enough to correct all the the BS slamming of Clinton.

[AgingAmerican]

21. The fact she needs to pay people to defend her says it all

Doesn't it?

[Hoyt]

30. Sanders just uses gullible people to spread BS.

[virtualobserver]

47. the gullible people? they believe that the candidate funded by billionaires is "fighting for us".

they will fall for anything.

[virtualobserver]

32. we see the way that they roll over at distort the record

Brock still makes money off of his book about Anita Hill....

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Anita-Hill-David-Brock/dp/0029046564

Brock is as disgusting now as he was when he attacked Anita Hill.

The Clintons have a history of choosing disgusting people on their team.

[Trajan]

2. I've already run into some of these folks

They resemble the recent members who have joined DU ... They have NOTHING on in their profile ... No pictures, no friends ... Just a foul mouth ...

People are smarter than that .. they spot them right off in the Bernie Groups, and are usually blocked in minutes ....

Fuck'm ... I remember when they didn't even bother acknowledging Bernie even existed ... How things change ...

GO Bernie!

[FreakinDJ]

7. Also they work on Philippine Time Zone

[CentralCoaster]

3. How deliciously filled with Hillary fail: trying to turn the Internet against itself?

This is sublime.

It's dripping in bullshit, who on earth would fall for this shit?

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Big Sister loves you

Really, she does!

[sadoldgirl]

14. I made the mistake of "abuela", but you are right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. New York is over, so we never were treated to "Bube"

and Knishes...

[Kalidurga]

22. I'm glad I am not the only one creeped out by that

Well not really, I don't like it that people have to be subjected to being creeped out.

[Ed Suspicious]

4. How many posts does a million bucks buy?

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. From the phillipines

a lot

[CoffeeCat]

5. Orwellian and silly

Their support is not organic. It's fake and paid for.

And "push back against" means mocking, negativity and narcissism while browbeating anyone who dares to post anything that isn't glowing about Hillary.

The internet is supposed to be a big conversation involving real people, not paid-for astroturfers pedaling Orwellian garbage and talking points.

They can't find authentic supporters who will stand up for her? They have to pay people?

LOL!

[Ed Suspicious]

6. How many here are on the payroll?

[reformist2]

16. Yep. More and more of their money has to be spent managing and massaging public opinion.

[cui bono]

42. A lot! And they are loud and nasty!

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Astroturf at this stage

it will be fun... oy

[Jitter65]

8. I do that for free and have made it to about 800 bashers. What am I missing. It doesn't cost

anything.

[d_legendary1]

9. I'm kicking this!

Thanks for proving that paid troll do exist!

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. 21st century Manufacturing Consent.

They control the TV. But the power structure is losing control of our information because we have the internet now. It's a threat. They need armies of sock puppets and paid trolls to set things straight.

[SFnomad]

12. With all the lies, smears, half-truths and things taken out of context about Secretary Clinton ...

you'd think Secretary Clinton was already fighting against the right wingnuts.

Is $1 million going to be enough to fight against this dishonesty?

[AgingAmerican]

19. The face her campaign needs to pay for loyalty says it all

[hellofromreddit]

13. Yup. reddit's a cesspool over in the /r/HillaryClinton and /r/PoliticalDiscussion subs.

PD used to be nice. Now it's basically the same as this forum--packed to the gills with spoiled winners and liars.

The coordination is obvious, too. Talking points pop up in here at the same time they pop up in there. Copy/paste duplicates aren't unusual.

The real Hillary supporters are pretty easy to spot though. They're the ones who aren't gigantic assholes.

[nolawarlock]

15. Why she would bother with Reddit I'll never know.

That place is practically the Dark Web.

[AgingAmerican]

18. What's the pay scale?

[nolawarlock]

20. There ain't enough money in the world to convince me to hang out there.

It's like asking me, "how much cash would it take to get you to drink from the sewer?"

Yeah, not gonna happen.

[AgingAmerican]

23. DU is also part of the internet

What's the pay scale? Why does she have to buy 'loyalty'?

[nolawarlock]

25. I have no idea what she's buying.

Do we have any proof of that?

Either way, good on her if she can manipulate the flaws of web platforms like this. God knows the Bernie supporters have been doing it with the jury system all along.

[AgingAmerican]

26. The proof is in the OP

Why does she have to buy 'loyalty' is she is so beloved?

[nolawarlock]

28. I don't agree with the premise of your question.

If she is paying people to correct misinformation, I see that as a different thing that having loyal voters. The paid person is going to have a better grasp of the information Hillary actually wants put out there, where a fan might get things wrong. I think both can play a roll. If I were running for office, I'd absolute want both loyal voters and paid operatives.

[AgingAmerican]

29. How much 'loyalty' will a million dollars buy?

[nolawarlock]

31. Money doesn't buy loyalty.

It buys work.

But then maybe we should send whoever she's paying to do it back to the unemployment line, right?

[AgingAmerican]

41. Loyaty buys work

Money buys propaganda

[cui bono]

43. Really? It's a lot smarter than DU is nowadays.

[AgingAmerican]

17. A million dollars worth of 'Neener! Neener! Neener!'

...lovely...

[amborin]

24. yep, censorship, already

very visible....

[AuntPatsy]

27. Everyone is doing the same, interesting times.....

[Duppers]

48. Really?!

You cannot back that comment.

[dgauss]

33. The Clinton campaign has been very successful in characterizing as "personal attacks" anything that

mentions the money she's received from speeches to wall street, corporate contributions to her campaign, even foreign policy decisions..

In other words, the factual observations, things that make up the legitimate argument that Bernie Sanders is no where near as embedded in a corrupt system as Clinton is, are personal attacks.

It's hard for Clinton to argue against those observations about how things work and how she's a part of it, so the Clinton pros turned those observations into criticisms and then into "personal attacks," and it worked. Watch the news channels whose employees now talk about nothing other than Bernie's "negative" attacks, and then see how it all filtered down to social media.

DU hasn't been talking about whether having a president that would be an unapologetic advocate for single payer health care would would be a good thing or not. The discussion has been dragged down to Bernie's "negativity" and "personal attacks" by the Clinton campaign, the media, and unfortunately here as well.

Give them the credit due, the Clinton campaign knows politics.

[arikara]

34. K&R

n/t

[TSIAS]

38. I don't think these people are on DU

Most of them here just come up with the same old shit (Popegate, Tokengate). I don't see many Clinton supporters here extolling her virtues. Most of their contributions are anti-Sanders and not pro-Clinton. In fact, I suspect some of the more over the top Clinton fans are really just parodies created by supporters of Sen. Sanders.

[leveymg]

39. Paid trolls should be banned, even trolls paid by the Clinton campaign.

[senz]

40. If she forced her way into the WH, what would she do to Net Neutrality?

[Marrah_G]

44. This was probably a stupid thing to have said publically

The youth of the net does not like being manipulated and this will probably backfire on the campaign in a spectacular way.

[fun n serious]

45. What about Bernie's paid protesters?

LMAO

[frylock]

46. ^^

[oberliner]

49. What does "my inbox turned to cancer" mean?

Never heard that expression before and cannot make sense of it.