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Showing Original Post only (View all)Leaked email from DNC confirms paid trolls [View all]
From Jeremy Brinster of the DNC ...
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/8351
Yes, Super PAC paying young voters to push back online on Sanders supporters
Shes forced to continue to appeal to young liberals as opposed to pivoting back to center
Shes forced to continue to appeal to young liberals as opposed to pivoting back to center
I'm sure none of them are here on DU, but be careful when reading/posting on other boards.
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Yes, he's confirming that a super pac is paying trolls, not that it's being done by DNC or ...
Scuba
Jul 2016
#2
Yes, it would be a huge leap from "the DNC knows" to "the campaign is coordinating."
Scuba
Jul 2016
#4
Sanders lost fair and square: Sanders said so: enough we need to fight Trumps fascism!
lewebley3
Jul 2016
#78
Perhaps some remarks here indicate "paid trolls" of the RNC; but I won't read this crap...
Jeffersons Ghost
Jul 2016
#184
You missing the point: Trump's fascism means the death of our fellow Americans:
lewebley3
Jul 2016
#186
I didn't claim they were. I posted only to address your partially incorrect comment about illegality
merrily
Jul 2016
#18
smh. No one said you said that. The OP was about PAID, i.e. compensated, posters.
MADem
Jul 2016
#21
Your Reply 21 seems to be saying paid posters are illegal. I am sure that is not what you meant.
merrily
Jul 2016
#27
Yes, at the very outset of my conversation here. The idea is to follow the convo.
MADem
Jul 2016
#57
Right. The statement "Yes, Super PAC paying young voters to push back online" isn't confirming it.
Scuba
Jul 2016
#6
I consider grasping at straws to de legitimize Clinton's campaign after the primaries
sufrommich
Jul 2016
#10
No. The story is the DNC violated it's own rules and interfered with the primary.
think
Jul 2016
#73
Are you OK with the DNC violating its own rules just when the Republicans have a scary candidate?
Scuba
Jul 2016
#159
Given that the "foreign meddling" is against the Democratic candidate, some seem to be
synergie
Jul 2016
#168
a useful idiot is someone who thinks a country with a sixth our military budget that we have
yurbud
Jul 2016
#102
Please share the link to your claim. The Washington post retracted their claim because it was untrue
think
Jul 2016
#65
“online ads, email fundraising, web development, graphic design, photography and videography.”
think
Jul 2016
#74
No shit? I haven't seen that. Have you seen any posts anywhere that self-identify as such?
Scuba
Jul 2016
#158
How about reporters? Should they be required to disclose that they're paid by a campaign?
Scuba
Jul 2016
#29
It's the Internet. For all I know, many of us at DU are being paid by a campaign.
randome
Jul 2016
#46
Ah, so you're upset that Chuck Todd failed to disclose that his wife was being paid by the Sanders
synergie
Jul 2016
#169
Coordinated paid trolls don't have to tell the truth nor can their actions be claimed to represent
think
Jul 2016
#30
I'm sure they had someone 'monitoring' social media but that's just an assumption on my part.
randome
Jul 2016
#47
Ha, no. I've never seen Wikileaks put out such bullshit tweets - so deceptive and rat fucky....
bettyellen
Jul 2016
#179
all the paid-media businesses can include social media posts. weird no RW are ever hacked/leaked
Sunlei
Jul 2016
#33
money paid to Revolution Messaging was spent on “online ads, email fundraising, web development,
think
Jul 2016
#50
If the Washington Post had a shred of evidence they wouldn't have retracted their story
think
Jul 2016
#67
"She’s forced to continue to appeal to young liberals as opposed to pivoting back to center"
Baitball Blogger
Jul 2016
#52
Perhaps you'd like to discuss the new news coming from the DNC email revelations?
think
Jul 2016
#68
No, I am only interested in getting Hillary elected-not interested in hit-pieces on Democrats.
riversedge
Jul 2016
#82
So... the leaked DNC emails are a figment of a Bernie Sanders supporter's imagination?
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2016
#108
Not to be a concern troll, but it worries me. Democrats count on high turnout in Presidential ...
Scuba
Jul 2016
#100
Unless there's some evidence that those paid to post did anything unethical
LongtimeAZDem
Jul 2016
#132
Apr 21, 2016 - ... spending $1 million to hire online trolls to "correct" Bernie Sanders supporters
BlueStateLib
Jul 2016
#141
You mean repeat a winger meme about non emails from unconfirmed account?! REALLY?! The CT is
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#152
+++++ ANOTHER BULLSHIT RATFUCKING MEME++++++ Clinton locked primary by May 5th...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#150
Nope/ they were notes from a FOX news TV show that claimed there were paid trolls.
bettyellen
Jul 2016
#176
The Wikileaks tweets do not support the emails within- we don't even know how many are
bettyellen
Jul 2016
#183