Hillary's paid online pro-Hillary trolls

[seanD]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...htmlstory.html

*Ahem* Tassman, JimL, Jaecp... ?

[guacamole]

Good grief. The political arms race continues to escalate.

Edited to add: Is anyone really surprised by this? Do we doubt that Trump also has a similar plan? Is anyone else irritated by the semantic drift of "troll"?

[seanD]

Well, yeah. According to Hillary, Putin's got a whole alt-right network of em. Of course that conspiracy isn't as proven as the Hillary super Pac, but yeah, that don't matter.

[Mountain Man]

I regularly see paid Hillary trolls in the Breitbart comment section. They're pretty easy to spot, actually, because they tend to do nothing other than regurgitate the Hillary campaign's talking points and are easily stumped when it comes to actually defending their position. But then again, that's typical of most liberals, so who knows.

[seanD]

I wonder how one goes about getting a paid gig like that, and how they even pay?

[guacamole]

I wonder how one goes about getting a paid gig like that, and how they even pay?

No doubt. Someone get on this. My retirement is perched in the balance. It wouldn't surprise me if these kinds of political gigs are pseudo-under-the-table--you know, unreported cash/scholarships/gifts/etc.

Editted to add: Here you go, you lazy buzzards.

http://smokinghotpoliticaljunkies.co...ery-bad-taste/

A juicy point from the article:

[seanD]

That's awesome (assuming I'm not getting punked by some satire site).

[guacamole]

From my typically slapdash perusal of the site, it looks like it was/is a pro-bernie site.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...lary-Supporter

[Jaecp]

Well, yeah. According to Hillary, Putin's got a whole alt-right network of em. Of course that conspiracy isn't as proven as the Hillary super Pac, but yeah, that don't matter.

According to Hillary?

If you ignore The New York Times, Then again last June, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, more guardian and this guy on Forbes

Oh, and of course, the best introductory article, Courtesy of The Atlantic

Now, obviously, this is merely just a pile of links that you won't read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades heres the wiki page) but what gives SeanD? The usual refrain I see on TWeb is that we shouldn't care who is interfering with the election because at least the information being shared is true. Why are you denying the basic existence of web brigades? It's not according to Hillary, The Department of Homeland Secruity and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security are pointing at Russia, too.

[Jaecp]

[seanD]

According to Hillary?

If you ignore The New York Times, Then again last June, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, more guardian and this guy on Forbes

Oh, and of course, the best introductory article, Courtesy of The Atlantic

Now, obviously, this is merely just a pile of links that you won't read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades heres the wiki page) but what gives SeanD? The usual refrain I see on TWeb is that we shouldn't care who is interfering with the election because at least the information being shared is true. Why are you denying the basic existence of web brigades? It's not according to Hillary, The Department of Homeland Secruity and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security are pointing at Russia, too.

I'm not denying it, it's certainly plausible that governments engage in propaganda online, I just can't prove it. It would certainly serve their best interest being that that's where a whole lot of people get most of their info these days. Of course, being that we're in a cold war with Russia and all, and on the cusp of a hot war, MSM certainly would have every reason to propagate this theory, whether true or not. Haven't read the articles you linked, not really interested in it to be honest, so they may offer as much evidence for this as the evidence of Hillary's super Pac. But I never denied it. Hillary didn't really link alt-right to a Putin troll network (to my knowledge), I was just being sarcastic and trying to be funny

[Jaecp]

I'm not denying it, it's certainly plausible that governments engage in propaganda online, I just can't prove it. It would certainly serve their best interest being that that's where a whole lot of people get most of their info these days. Of course, being that we're in a cold war with Russia and all, and on the cusp of a hot war, MSM certainly would have every reason to propagate this theory, whether true or not. Haven't read the articles you linked, not really interested in it to be honest, so they may offer as much evidence for this as the evidence of Hillary's super Pac. But I never denied it. Hillary didn't really link alt-right to a Putin troll network (to my knowledge), I was just being sarcastic and trying to be funny

Read the The Atlantic article, at least, I don't care if you skip the rest (its literally part of the first page of google hits for "Russian Troll Army" I just wanted to link to a wide variety of places to show that I wasn't advocating some conspiracy) except for the DHS report. I have never seen the government so clearly single out a cyber attack target like this. Its kind of nuts, you know?

This is a serious issue and it's not going to end when trump get's destroyed 3 weeks from now so you should start looking into it. The Atlantic article is from 2014, long before Trump was on anyone's radar as a realistic presidential candidate and long before anyone here cared about Hillary's emails. It's a source old enough to establish that these "web brigades" exist. This is very serious issue Sean and it would behoove you to learn about it. This is a thing that exists. Unequivocally.

[Sparko]

*Ahem* Tassman, JimL, Jaecp... ?

wow, those guys are missing out on an opportunity. Especially JimL who is always looking for a free handout. Maybe Clinton will hire them to put the lid on us upstarts here on Tweb. Or maybe not since they are already working for free.

[Sparko]

According to Hillary?

If you ignore The New York Times, Then again last June, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, more guardian and this guy on Forbes

Oh, and of course, the best introductory article, Courtesy of The Atlantic

Now, obviously, this is merely just a pile of links that you won't read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades heres the wiki page) but what gives SeanD? The usual refrain I see on TWeb is that we shouldn't care who is interfering with the election because at least the information being shared is true. Why are you denying the basic existence of web brigades? It's not according to Hillary, The Department of Homeland Secruity and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security are pointing at Russia, too.

another 3 cents in your pocket! Cha-CHING! $$$

[Mountain Man]

Now isn't this interesting:

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I've actually seen Hillary shills use these tactics with my own eyes!