Comment on The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 6 days agoRead 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
That’s the second best false equivalency fallacy I’ve heard over the past seven days! 👍🏾
(Nothing was gonna beat “the electoral college is literally DEI for elections”, I’m sorry. Not to denigrate your efforts or anything!)