Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’...

[MTAtech]

[h=1]Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter[/h]
One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.



The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign.

Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

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Welcome to American Provda! Disinformation and propaganda to influence the election.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

[h=1]Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter[/h]
One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.



The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign.

Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

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Welcome to American Provda! Disinformation and propaganda to influence the election.

Would we call them...MAGA Youth??

 

[Greenbeard]

There are young people using the online retirement community known as Facebook? That's the first clue something was amiss here.

 

[Captain Adverse]

[h=1]Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter[/h]
One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”

A Facebook comment argued that mail-in ballots “will lead to fraud for this election,” while an Instagram comment amplified the erroneous claim that 28 million ballots went missing in the past four elections.



The messages have been emanating in recent months from the accounts of young people in Arizona seemingly expressing their own views — standing up for President Trump in a battleground state and echoing talking points from his reelection campaign.

Far from representing a genuine social media groundswell, however, the posts are the product of a sprawling yet secretive campaign that experts say evades the guardrails put in place by social media companies to limit online disinformation of the sort used by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

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Welcome to American Provda! Disinformation and propaganda to influence the election.

LOL :lamo

We've been living with the "American Pravda" for the last decade at least...only gotten so much worse, and thus so much more obvious to see over the last 4 + years.

MSM and most secondary "News" outlets have been providing opinion, commentary, disinformation, and misinformation as "News" it's almost as if they worship at the idols of Goebbels and the old Soviet Propaganda Ministry.

Yet your complaint is what some young "conservatives" are posting on Facebook and Twitter? BOTH media that themselves use their "unclear" rules in support of left-leaning posters while "banning, deleting, etc." any members/posters they don't agree with.

HYPOCRISY; thy name is Progressive/Left/Neo-Liberal.

 

[What if...?]

LOL :lamo

We've been living with the "American Pravda" for the last decade at least...only gotten so much worse, and thus so much more obvious to see over the last 4 + years.

MSM and most secondary "News" outlets have been providing opinion, commentary, disinformation, and misinformation as "News" it's almost as if they worship at the idols of Goebbels and the old Soviet Propaganda Ministry.

Yet your complaint is what some young "conservatives" are posting on Facebook and Twitter? BOTH media that themselves use their "unclear" rules in support of left-leaning posters while "banning, deleting, etc." any members/posters they don't agree with.

HYPOCRISY; thy name is Progressive/Left/Neo-Liberal.

Ironic, your post is.

Seems exactly the opposite from this side.

And we have the entire world's consensus reality on our side too. Yours only exists in the minds of consumers of conservative media. That is a clear issue with your narratives on "fake news". It requires the entire rest of the free world to be in on it.

 

[MTAtech]

LOL :lamo

We've been living with the "American Pravda" for the last decade at least...only gotten so much worse, and thus so much more obvious to see over the last 4 + years.

MSM and most secondary "News" outlets have been providing opinion, commentary, disinformation, and misinformation as "News" it's almost as if they worship at the idols of Goebbels and the old Soviet Propaganda Ministry.

Yet your complaint is what some young "conservatives" are posting on Facebook and Twitter? BOTH media that themselves use their "unclear" rules in support of left-leaning posters while "banning, deleting, etc." any members/posters they don't agree with.

HYPOCRISY; thy name is Progressive/Left/Neo-Liberal.

It seems to me that the MSM generally provides accurate facts. The problem is that Trump & Co. have been working double-time to discredit the MSM because it reports on their malfeasants.

A good piece is this Bret Stephens op-ed: What ‘Chernobyl’ Teaches About Trump, the way the Soviets decide what the truth and facts are regardless of what the objective facts are.

[In scene after scene, party officials decree that the seriousness of the accident isn’t so bad. Or that the extent of the fallout isn’t so wide. Or that the reach of the blame isn’t so deep. They lie to the West. They lie to their people. They lie up the chain of command and down it. Why? Because they can.

“Do you think the right question will get you the truth?” Anatoly Dyatlov (played by Paul Ritter), the engineer who oversaw the safety test that led to the disaster and later became the regime’s designated fall guy, says to a scientist trying to find out what happened the night of the accident. “There is no truth. Ask the bosses whatever you want and you will get the lie. And I will get the bullet.”

In fact, Dyatlov got 10 years (and served three). But the line captures the essence of a system in which every official lie is a noble one and truth is whatever happens to serve the party at a particular moment in time. And it works — until it doesn’t.
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I asked Middlebury’s Allison Stanger, author of the exceptionally sharp forthcoming book, “Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump,” about the cumulative effect of this blizzard. She quoted Hannah Arendt’s famous observation: “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” The result is that people lose the capacity to think for themselves, to make judgments, to find a rational basis for taking any sort of stand on principle. They become sheep.]
And that's where we are, many Americans don't believe anything and believe what Trump says -- even after hearing a tape from Woodward where Trump himself says the opposite. For the Trump Admin, this is not a bug but a feature.

 

[Captain Adverse]

It seems to me that the MSM generally provides accurate facts. The problem is that Trump & Co. have been working double-time to discredit the MSM because it reports on their malfeasants.

No they don't. :naughty

Nor does any discerning person need to depend on "Trump to discredit" anything.

I don't depend on fact check sites, as they have proven to be just as disingenuous. Phrasing the "fact" being checked to distort it in some way and thus claim it is true/false depending on how they feel about the author.

No I CHECK THE ACTUAL FACTS themselves.

That means I don't focus on headlines or the comments made in the first few paragraphs. NO, I read through the whole presentation, and I also go to the sources (video, published, w/e) and examine them from start to finish myself.

I've found that once respected news agencies, are fighting with online media for income as the Inteweb's access draws viewership away from Cable/TV/Radio.

Remember, even with TV the advertising revenue goes to those media that provided the most access to consumer watchers/listeners. Hence, those once-important Nielson ratings.

So to get the views online as well as cable? News agencies are devolving into the old sensationalism of the Yellow Journalism from back in the day when Newspapers fought for income via lurid headlines and stories.

That's for the rest of your response. You should already KNOW this, as my history in this Forum shows that I often respond to a post with it's own source citations, by using those very sources to undercut the crap the article "reported."