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The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform (thefederalist.com)
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[–] realcaseyrollins -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they're not getting paid.

[–] realcaseyrollins -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.