Amerika

We have written in the past here about JournoList, the Obama-era mailing list that enabled journalists to collaborate on how to write the same story from multiple outlets and spam the electorate. It turns out that they are doing the same on social media with coordinated astroturfed stories:

In this case, there is a team of volunteers who spam social media with posts that specifically promote Kamala. They then have other users pretend to be random individuals who just happened across the post and decided to comment. It’s no different than a shady company paying a team to write a bunch of fake Amazon reviews about their product to make it appear to be a better and more popular product than it is.

I found that 126 of the top 1,000 posts in the past month on r/Politics were posted by official Harris-Walz campaign volunteers.

They collect their Reddit links so Kamala’s volunteers can flood the post with likes and comments, thus making them appear more active. This, in turn, triggers the algorithm to make the post appear in more user timelines. Reddit’s post activity algorithm is extremely simple, and can easily be abused, which is known on Reddit as “brigading.”

As the American people awaken on election day, they may realize that they are facing not honest opinions by regular people, but a network of paid political operatives pretending to be everyday humans in order to manipulate the herd into liking Communism. McCarthy was right, and it turns out Eisenhower should have looked out for the bureaucratic-industrial complex instead of the military-industrial complex.

Tags: astroturfing, communism, journolist, propaganda, reddit