2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAn Alleged Hillary Shill Talks About Being Paid To Smear Bernie Sanders
Interesting read. Here's some highlights.
"Just to give you an idea, here are some of the guidelines for our posting in October:
1) Sexism. This was the biggest one we were supposed to push. We had to smear Bernie as misogynistic and out-of-touch with modern sensibilities. He was to be characterized as an old white male relic that believed women enjoyed being gang raped. Anyone who tried to object to this characterization would be repeatedly slammed as sexist until they went away or people lost interest.
2) Racism. We were instructed to hammer home how Bernie supporters were all privileged white students that had no idea how the world worked. We had to tout Hillarys great record with the blacks (yes, thats the actual way it was phrased), and generally use racial identity politics to attack Sanders and bolster Hillary as the only unifying figure.
3) Electability. All of those posts about how Sanders can never win and Hillary is inevitable? Some of those were us, done deliberately in an attempt to demoralize Bernie supporters and convince them to stop campaigning for him. The problem is that this was an outright fabrication and not an accurate assessment of the current political situation. But the truth didnt matter we were trying to create a new truth, not to spread the existing truth.
4) Dirty tactics. This is where things got really bad. We were instructed to create narratives of Clinton supporters as being victimized by Sanders supporters, even if they were entirely fabricated. There were different instructions about how to do it, but something like this (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/31/1443064/-Dis-heartened-Hillary-Supporter) is a perfect example. These kind of posts are manufactured to divide and demoralize Sanders supporters, and are entirely artificial in nature. (The same thing happened in 2008, but it wasnt as noticeable before social media and public attention focused on popular forums like Reddit).
5) Opponent outreach. There are several forums and imageboards where Sanders is not very popular (I think you can imagine which ones those are.) We were instructed to make pro-Sanders troll posts to rile up the user base and then try to goad them into raiding or attacking places like this subreddit. This was probably the only area where we only had mixed success, since that particular subset of the population were more difficult to manipulate than we originally thought."
http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/confessions-hillary-shill-people-getting-paid-bash-bernie-sanders/
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)DebDoo
(319 posts)LonePirate
(13,429 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)Nice going, brainiac.
MuseRider
(34,115 posts)and it still is. Thanks.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)"This was probably the only area where we only had mixed success, since that particular subset of the population were more difficult to manipulate than we originally thought.""
So the rightwing nutties were harder to manipulate than the supporters of said candidate..intersting
DebDoo
(319 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Especially the ones that start 20 or more threads on the poutrage du jour.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)They've got a tough job.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clintons-twitter-trolls-118079
I wonder if they get paid more than minimum wage?
Myrina
(12,296 posts).... wasn't she calling most of her interns / campaign staff "volunteers" awhile back so NONE of them (except the big name pay-to-play ones) were getting an hourly wage?
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Where do we sign up?
SocialLibFiscalCon
(92 posts)At least the others are getting paid for selling their souls.
SocialLibFiscalCon
(92 posts)I think we should start calling them out by name. Is that against the site rules? Way too many posters on this site who never engage in debate about real issues and only hang around to post snide nonsense about manufactured issues in Bernie threads.
amborin
(16,631 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)When the reddit moderators asked for some proof from the poster, he couldn't provide any, and they subsequently moved it to the reddit equivalent of the loony-bin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3rncq9/confession_of_hillary_shill_from/