Astroturf ‘Outrage Machine’ of Paid Trolls Floods Social Media to Counteract Negative News About Hillary Clinton

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The Stream
Rachel Alexander
Oct. 9, 2016

A significant portion of online support for Hillary Clinton is manufactured by paid “astroturf” trolls: a large team of supporters who spend long hours responding 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. The trolls create a false impression that Clinton has more support than she really does, because one supporter will frequently create multiple anonymous accounts.

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Look to your left, your left, your left, right, left.

[jmyrlefuller]

This was six months ago, and judging by the litany of Trump trolls spamming Facebook and Twitter, it's pretty clear this is probably going both ways.

[ABX]

Both sides employ these tactics. I can't tell you how many phony accounts swamp conservative pages and push a lot of the fake news sites hosted out of Russia and Macedonia (Prntly, Marshall Report, Still Report, etc).

[ABX]

This was six months ago, and judging by the litany of Trump trolls spamming Facebook and Twitter, it's pretty clear this is probably going both ways.

Yep, lots of articles about it. Both sides are using fake bots and accounts like crazy this season.
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/04/patrick-ruffini-truth-about-trumps-twitter-trolls/