Far-Right Flips Out Over Obviously Fake Company Claiming To Pay Trump ProtestersBY CALEB PERSHAN IN NEWS ON JAN 17, 2017 11:30 AM
http://sfist.com/2017/01/17/demand_protest_paid_protest_fake_co.phpA website that claims to represent a San Francisco-based company called Demand Protest supposedly paying "operatives" as much as $2,500 a month "on top of standard per-event pay of $50/hr" for their work as hired protesters is making the alt-right rounds today on forums like 4chan and 8chan, as well websites like Breitbart, Infowars, and the Washington Times.
Demand Protest, which purports to be a group of "strategists mobilizing millennials across the globe with seeded audiences and desirable messages" has some on the far-right downright giddy, presented with what they perceive as evidence confirming their conspiracy-minded suspicions that, say, Trump protesters are simply paid shills rather than legitimately concerned citizens and Black Lives Matter activists are in it for the money rather than, you know, the racial justice.
But even Infowars had to couch its report on Demand Protest with skepticism, as the website and "company" appear to be a false flag operation. Although Demand Protest has a working phone number with a San Francisco 415 area code, SFist has tried several times and failed to find any way to speak to an actual human person at the number — you can attempt to key in any extension number, and it simply says "not found" and hangs up on you.
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