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Grins

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14. The killer quote in the story....

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:11 AM

Sep 2020

"In 2016, there were Macedonian teenagers interfering in the election by running a troll farm and writing salacious articles for money. In this election, the troll farm is in Phoenix. The scale and scope of domestic disinformation is far greater than anything a foreign adversary could do to us." - Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

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Pro-Trump group pays teens to post online [View all] packman Sep 2020 OP

The sleaze continues RainCaster Sep 2020 #1

Money Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #2

Youngsters sometimes.... paleotn Sep 2020 #9

The lengths they need to go to Hip2bSquare Sep 2020 #3

Their co-founder Bill Montgomery died of COVID IronLionZion Sep 2020 #4

Here is a link to the WaPo report... reACTIONary Sep 2020 #5

Of course. Paid trolls. They have nothing to do with their time and money but bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #6

I always figured that Charlie Kirk was a total sleazebag. Initech Sep 2020 #7

Kirk is relatively young - what kind of poisonous environment was he raised in? thenelm1 Sep 2020 #11

He is creepy moose65 Sep 2020 #13

The falcon has heard the falconer.... paleotn Sep 2020 #8

Grotesque JDC Sep 2020 #10

Pure evil Blue Owl Sep 2020 #12

The killer quote in the story.... Grins Sep 2020 #14

I always suspected there was a larger home grown troll army than Russian LiberalLovinLug Sep 2020 #15