Comment on The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This entire blob of text is a bad joke. People are using discord and reddit to organize and conservatives are calling foul because they can’t imagine people from different walks of life would ever communicate and organize together towards a common goal. It’s almost as if regressive don’t understand what a society is supposed to look like and function in the absence of hate.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Read the article. These people in the Discord server are astroturfing engagement of social media posts related to Kamala Harris, with evidence of their strategies as well as the woman running this particular astroturfing campaign being a paid Democrat party staffer.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they’re not getting paid.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Let me get this straight; you actually think if people are using their own accounts to feign organic popularity of social media posts, news stories, and political candidates for free, that’s not astroturfing?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let me get this straight, you actually think if people are using their own feet to walk and knock on doors for free, that’s not astroturfing?!
Same concept, different landscape. Organized != Astroturfing.