Hillary Clinton's paid Internet Troll Army

It's just come to light recently that Hillary has on a payroll an entire internet troll army to shill for her. It started much earlier. Her trolls were operating as early as 2015. Can those guys actually help corrupted Hillary improve her terrible image? Can they influence the public opinion sufficiently enough?


Hillary Clinton’s Million Dollar Professional Internet Troll Army

http://theantimedia.org/hillary-clintons-internet-troll-army/

(ANTIMEDIA) Hillary Clinton-aligned Super PAC, Correct the Record, is taking a page out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook by employing a $1 million dollar professional internet troll army to build a paid, positive consensus about the Clinton campaign. The effort, called “Breaking Barriers 2016,” claims:

“While Hillary Clinton fights to break down barriers and bring America together, the Barrier Breakers 2016 digital task force will serve as a resource for supporters looking for positive content and push-back to share with their online progressive communities, as well as thanking prominent supporters and committed superdelegates on social media.

“Correct The Record will invest more than $1 million into Barrier Breakers 2016 activities, including the more than tripling of its digital operation to engage in online messaging both for Secretary Clinton and to push back against attackers on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Instagram.”

The campaign will essentially be employing an unknown number of paid, pro-Hillary trolls to spread positive news about the candidate and counter anyone posting negative information about her. And these aren’t just ragtag trolls living in their mothers’ basements — they are industry and campaign professionals. As Correct the Record acknowledges:

“The task force staff’s backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize.”

In response to this news, Bernie Sanders campaign staffer Mike Casca told The Daily Beast, “Our campaign and our vendors are not paying people to reply to anti-Bernie comments on social media.” He added, “Come on man, really?”

The Hillary campaign was also recently called out by The Intercept for deploying “astroturfers” into the media — people with ties to Clinton who act as experts and political commentators to promote her campaign without disclosing their ties to the candidate.

With Hillary’s highly effective media strategies employing media surrogates — and now internet trolls — it’s becoming increasingly hard to decipher a distinction between actual Clinton supporters, unbiased political commentators, and paid campaign shills.

 

and Bernie's troll army gets paid with promises of free stuff.

 

Do they make $15 an hour or does she outsource to one of her India donors?

 

You know how mean she could be. She is paying women less than men.

I don’t think she’s paying them by the hour. They’ve got to post certain amount of posts to get paid. Anyway some of them are posting on this forum. Let’s wait for them to tell us more about it.

 

Based on the quality of their posting, I would say she is hiring child laborers.

 

Guess there are some jobs Americans won't do

 

Yes; I heard a kid tonight saying, "Why should I have to pay for my own higher education?"

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The accent wouldn't work.

 

I could care less if who I respond to is a Clinton supporter, an unbiased commentator or a paid shill. Either their argument is good, and they are persuasive, or their argument is crap. It is the post that I pay attention to. I don't even wonder about a motive I cannot possibly ascertain over an internet site. It works as a distraction to what I am trying to accomplish if I spend my energy looking for clues about who is what, and why.

 

Paid shills are fairly easy to spot. Most political forums consist of little families and we all know the members that have been here for years. Any new members posting constant things about a candidate should probably be ignored but that is what our moderation staff is for.

 

Good thing they haven't found PF yet amirite?

 

A million dollars doesn't buy much.

 

This is a pretty common tactic for many candidates and parties across many countries. I'm more surprised by anyone who acts like this is new.

 

Bear in mind that this is not a news piece, but an attack piece written on a trashy right wing blog, that cites another equally obscure trashy right wing blog as its source.

Read about Correct the Record in their own words, and you will not see a paid army of internet trools, but rather a clearinghouse for information and spin to combat online attacks against Mrs Clinton, most of which appear to have come from some of the more disaffected Sanders supporters.

The trash blog, and the OP insinuate that Correct the Record is paying people to masqurade as legitimate posters and as fakes to sell a message on various bulletin boards and blogs.

That's obvious, since most of the posters on this thread took that message at face value. It is false.

In fact, Clear the Reccord will provide resources for people who post, not employ them, as insinuated.

It's also interesting to note taht the OP's trash blog employed imflammatory rhetoric by associating the tactic with Vladimir Putin, who, in turn took their lead from conservative American talk radio, and particularly, Rush Limbaugh's syndicator, Premier Broadcast Networks, whose subsidiary Premier On Call, employs actors as paid shills to call into right wing radio talk shows.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/hmm-prominent-conservative-radio-host

 

Indeed sir. Indeed.

However you are now being labelled as a paid shill yourself.

As I will be.

 

Probably not. More likely they will reinforce her image as the wicked witch loosing the flying monkeys to bedevil the virtuous.

Oh that's rich. Little Miss "It was an internet video" and "I had approval for that private server, which had not classified material" is going to "correct the record".

That's perfect.

She is going to pay professional trolls to thank super-delegates?

Yea Bernie! That captures it! She has no real affection and no real support so she has to pay for and fabricate what other candidates attract organically. All she offers is political junk food

Has she no pride?

With her favorability ratings, she has a "highly effective media strategy"?

She truly is a horrible woman and and now she is losing a paid army of professional media trolls on our discussion groups

Hillary's going to come looking for me, and she’s foolish and clueless enough to push and push until we normals get tired of it and start to push back. I, for one, prefer my country not to be sucked into a second civil war because some former president’s angry wife is playing out a freakish psychodrama revenge fantasy against all the guys who have rejected her, from her father to Bill to those of us male-identifying men who laugh at her cankles. Advantage Trump.


http://townhall.com/columnists/kurt...ump-because-hillary-is-so-much-worse-n2169799

 

Lol.

Hyperbolic ranting bull.

 

No need to label you. You’ve labeled yourself long time ago by condoning and defending numerous criminal activities and fraudulent actions committed by Clintons over the years. Only a fool or a shill could possibly refuse to acknowledge plethora of evidence against them.

 

Hillary has less energy then Jeb Bush. She has to pay people to support her online. Trump doesn't need to pay people because people like me are "enthusiastic" in our support.

 

Interesting. In the other more likely hand only a fool or a right wing shill could possibly believe all the muck thrown at them over the years.

Would you say that you are a fool or a shill or an intelligent clear eyed patriot?

 

Or in the other hand. She doesn't have less etc etc.

People like you are simple frustrated nationalists looking for a cause to jazz up your lives.

I get that. I can see why people are enthused by trump.

 

I have interned with two congressmen and a senator and never heard about paid shills. Either someone else is doing it outside of the candidate or its kept very hush hush.

 

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Considering how stupid her supporters are, you have a point.

 

Huh?

Hillary supports / Gazi's (global socialist) use any way possible to sell out the American people and redistribute there wealth to places they control.

can you see why people are turned off by Hillary? Selling out American interest for personal gain is only cool if you're a globalist that despises the American people. In a liberals book, if you think a group people are racist, bigot, white, Christians, it's ok to sell them out.

 

From what I've seen at PF, Trump is the one with the "troll army".

 

.. not really any difference, except in pay level.