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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 05:02 AM Jan 2014

Reagancoalition.com astroturf group - anyone know who's behind it?

They have paid posts that get forced into my twitter feed daily - vile, crazyrightwing stuff, of course.
If you visit their website, it's just a bunch of rightwing articles, with zero info on who's behind or even a contact address.

Also, a WHOIS search shows it's a private, hidden registration for the website.

But somebody's sinking some major money into them. They're all over Twitter, Reddit and Facebook. Seems to be the new rw social media strategy. just set up a bunch of dummy groups and spam everyone's feeds with paid, promoted posts.

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Reagancoalition.com astroturf group - anyone know who's behind it? (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2014 OP
The WHOIS will show the domain provider cap Jan 2014 #1

cap

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1. The WHOIS will show the domain provider
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 05:49 AM
Jan 2014

You can email the trash they are spewing and get the domain provider to shut them down

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