Reminder to when CTR/Shareblue began on Reddit and Facebook
30 2017-03-30 by Rocksolid1111
From April 2016,
“This explains why my inbox turned to cancer on Tuesday,” wrote user OKarizee. “Been a member of reddit for almost 4 years and never experienced anything like it. In fact, in all my years on the internet I’ve never experienced anything like it.”
Correct the Record, which has received $5 million this campaign season and has spent almost $4.5 million of it, according to OpenSecrets.org, outlined its strategy against “swarms of anonymous attackers” in a press release.
Watson previously worked at Brock’s Media Matters for America, where “their whole mission is to debunk conservative misinformation [and] a lot of that ends up being defending Hillary Clinton,” but says she’s never seen anything like this initiative.
“Usually places like MMFA and CTR are defending her against the media and established figures. This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online,” she said. “I don’t know that they’ve done anything like this before.”
7 comments
n/a Edogawa1983 2017-03-30
who is this OKarizee fellow..
n/a Rocksolid1111 2017-03-30
Oh I dunno. Probably some Russian agent, right?
n/a chornu 2017-03-30
It's almost certain it began much earlier than that, they just didn't have the same amount of funding to make the impact they did around April.
n/a BigCatGottaEat 2017-03-30
;)
n/a PM_ME_UR_GLIPGLOPS 2017-03-30
o.O
n/a Afrobean 2017-03-30
oh i thought this thread was going to be about that coordinated effort to get Bernie Sanders Facebook pages shut down right before a big primary date by spamming them with child porn
I guess this is OK too
n/a Rocksolid1111 2017-03-30
Damn, I almost forgot about that. This articoe was around the time when they were attacking Bernie.