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Paid Trolls Counteract Negative News About Hillary Clinton

BigEarl

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While, I believe this is done by both camps, I am certain we know a few of these idiots.

A meaningful percentage of support for Hillary Clinton is contrived by paid “astroturf” trolls: a large team of supporters who spend long hours retorting to negative news on the internet about her. The Clinton SuperPAC Correct the Record, which is affiliated with her campaign, acknowledged in an April press release that it was spending $1 million on project “Breaking Barriers” to pay people to respond to negative information about Clinton on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. That amount has since increased to over $6 million

https://stream.org/astroturf-outrage-machine-of-paid-trolls-floods-social-media-to-counteract-negative-news-about-hillary-Clinton/
 
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