Bloomberg campaign paying workers $2,500 per month to promote Bloomberg through texts, social media

[Devil Child]

In addition to promoting Bloomberg, the campaign's job description for the position states that organizers may be asked to do more traditional campaign tasks such as phone banking. Source accounts and documents revealed to the Journal that the undertaking will cost the campaign millions of dollars monthly.

The staffers will be aided by Outvote, an app that allows users to send pre-written texts, post to social media platforms and then send data back to the campaign.

Outvote, which was created by a Democratic political tech incubator, also reportedly allows users to see if their friends are registered to vote by cross-referencing their phone contacts with public data.

"We are meeting voters everywhere on any platform that they consume their news," Bloomberg's senior national spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told The Hill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/483653-bloomberg-campaign-paying-workers-2500-per-month-to-promote-bloomberg-to

More insight into the efforts of the Bloomberg's online efforts to sway public opinion. $2500 a month is quite an income boost to flood your social media or forum platform with pro-Bloomberg posts. This news coincides quite nicely with the following link describing suspension of pro-Bloomberg twitter accounts for platform manipulation.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287558140

[Squinch]

1. Horrors! Well paid campaign workers! What outrage will he perpetrate next??1?

And PS: they're actually Americans. In contrast to some campaigns' social media groups.

[mcar]

2. Where can I sign up?

[beachbumbob]

3. let me know when you find out

[mcar]

4. ...

[LAS14]

5. It's been OK for a long time for campaigns to pay people to knock on doors...

... and make phone calls. We applaud them for raising enough money to do it. So what's wrong with this? I do think there is something wrong. But I can't figure out what it is.... Maybe it's that it is presenting a fraudulent picture of the candidate's support, rather than paying people to try to garner support?

What is it that I don't want to see take over our politics?

tia
las

[Devil Child]

7. If one is acting a "mercenary" poster for hire how is that different than a bot account?

Should we define a new term for this type of activity? Maybe call them cyborgs or something...

I see it as just another way to drown the social media news feed with content in support of a candidate. He's covering all the bases from radio, TV, and now a wide array of social media. From accounts that have large amounts of followers to individuals blitzing the group chats.

I don't want to see this take over our politics either LAS14. It just doesn't strike me as a good future to look forward to.

[LAS14]

8. Apparently Twitter agrees with us.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287558660

[Devil Child]

9. I saw that! Some good news

Too bad it probably just a drop in the bucket for these types of accounts.

[yaesu]

6. Putin won't like that. nt