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Report: Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit with Sophisticated Astroturfing Plan.
The Harris-Walz campaign is reportedly manipulating the social media platform Reddit and breaking the rules in order to control the narrative on the site and make Vice President Kamala Harris appear more popular than she actually is, according to a new investigation by the Federalist.
While Reddit is a notoriously leftist platform infamous for its censorship of a large community of Trump supporters, Harris’s campaign is deploying its staffers to manipulate the site’s algorithm even further via a massive “astroturfing” operation, which is in direct violation of platform’s Terms of Service, according to a report by the Federalist.
The term “astroturfing” refers to a fake grassroots campaign, which involves campaign staffers or volunteers posing as ordinary people to create the illusion that there is more support being expressed in favor of a particular candidate or issue than there actually is.
“It’s no different than a shady company paying a team to write a bunch of fake Amazon reviews about their product to make it appear to be a better and more popular product than it is,” the Federalist noted.
When this strategy is used on Amazon, it can manipulate people to buy certain products, thinking they are more popular than they are. When the same strategy is deployed for elections, it can reward a falsely advertised candidate with more votes.
The Harris-Walz campaign reportedly keeps a spreadsheet to track of its astroturfing efforts, which involves staffers spamming the “Politics” subreddit (reddit forums on a particular topic) — and other subreddits — with pro-Harris propaganda, and then having volunteers who pretend to be random users who just so happened to stumble upon the content post favorable comments.
The Federalist accessed the campaign’s Discord server and found that every weekday morning paid Democrat staffer Gabrielle Lynn communicates a “Daily Messaging Guidance” for Reddit, which usually consists of articles and data that the Harris-Walz campaign wants to boost, and “key messaging” that campaign volunteers need to stick to.
This information is assembled by official Harris-Walz staffers and is added to a Google Spreadsheet titled “Reddit Organizing.” From there, volunteers called “Lead Posters” — who are Reddit savvy — choose what they think will best resonate with users on the platform.
After posting to Reddit, the campaign’s Lead Posters then go back to the spreadsheet and update it with links to their posts, so that campaign volunteers can then spam the posts with likes and comments, making them appear more active, which then triggers the site’s algorithm to make the content more visible to users.
Harris-Walz campaign volunteers are reportedly working with a database of more than 100 subreddits that they target with campaign propaganda.
“Kamala’s posters, however, don’t simply spam links haphazardly. They use a calculated, sequential post timing metric to avoid Reddit’s built-in spam filters,” the Federalist reported.
Given that this activity violates Reddit’s Terms of Service, Harris-Walz campaign volunteers often discuss how to avoid getting banned while they spam the platform and carry out their astroturfing agenda, according to internal Discord chats obtained by the Federalist.
With regards to how effective this shady strategy has been, the Federalist noted that the Harris-Walz campaign’s own data reveals that over the course of 15 days, its volunteers were able to make 2,551 posts to Reddit, which have so far garnered more than 5.7 million upvotes and 418,000 comments.
Staffers and volunteers posing as regular individuals and spamming Reddit with propaganda and false favorability is clearly an effort by the Harris-Walz campaign to manipulate votes in the 2024 presidential election.
Read the full report at the Federalist here.
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You can spend one minute on Reddit and see that this is the case.
So many bots, always taking literally any topic to being a way to bash Trump and republicans. Posts in all kinds of non-political subs, like r/pics, to bash on Trump and Republicans.
Anyone that says anything even remotely positive about Trump or republicans gets downvoted into oblivion.
All attempts at debate, kindness, or civil discussion is met with pure poison.
Reddit is fucked and has been since 2015 at least.
Even sorting by controversial is pro Kamala. They took over the entire site
Yeah I've noticed that too. You occasionally see people decide not to give a shit about downvotes and post anyways, but for whatever reason, people are afraid of the downvotes, and just shut up.
Could be that there are more than we think, but their posts are being deleted? I don't know.
Sadly, Reddit is 90% shills and bots, so their astroturf hardly reaches real people
Bots talking to other bots ha ha ha and it goes no where!!!
Yet this forum has at least one neurotic troll who gets constantly banned and creates new accounts, pouncing on us via DMs for sharing the slightest personal info in discussions here. Even keeping tabs on where we live and what jobs we may have. I'd like to hope it's an AI bot because to think that someone would have nothing better to do with his life than to feed his seething hatred for people whom he disagrees with is disturbing. Just shows the spirit that opposes us, which tries to demoralize us via such pathetic attempts to feed negative energy in our direction.
These devil spawn know that their time is coming to an end. Hence all the extra panic.
Kek prolly the same demontard that told me to off myself the other day.
I think it is probably the same person. I mentioned my friend has been unemployed for months, and he PM'ed me and told me my friend is a loser. Funny, because even though my friend is unemployed, he still has better things to do with his life than to park his fat ass on some forum of people he disagrees politically with, taking extensive notes about the users there, trash posts from handshake accounts and gets constantly banned, and sends DMs to users to denigrate them. Who is the real loser here? Yeah, I thought so.
This why you take care to remain an anon.
Imagine being so terrible she needs to astroturf the algorithm at Reddit to appear more popular, lol.
How does SHE know someone isn't doing that to her? Lol. Would be deliciously ironic if she's being fed bs stats to make her believe she's gaining something positive 🙈 sorry, weird head space all day lol. But I can still wish.....
?? We don’t want astroturfed lefty propaganda. Making it a dig on Kamala’s ego doesn’t make astroturfed lefty propaganda a good thing
A 2022 report by the cybersecurity firm, Cloudflare, found that 90% of all internet traffic is now generated by bots, with 60% of those bots being malicious.
A 2022 study by the University of California, Berkeley, found that 80% of all social media posts are now generated by bots, with 40% of those bots being AI-powered.
A 2022 report by the market research firm, Forrester, found that 70% of all online content is now generated by AI-powered tools, with 50% of those tools being used for social media management.
Here's a rough breakdown of the likelihood of bot activity on different types of online platforms:
Social media platforms: 90% - 95%
Online forums and communities: 80% - 90%
Comment sections and discussion boards: 70% - 80%
Review websites and rating systems: 60% - 70%
Here are estimates of bot activity on popular subreddits:
r/news: 95% - 98% bot activity
r/worldnews: 92% - 95% bot activity
r/politics: 90% - 93% bot activity
r/technology: 85% - 90% bot activity
r/gaming: 80% - 85% bot activity
Dead internet theory for real.
Also from u/conservativeamerica,
2 months ago.
"Video: Kamala Harris’s Campaign Tried to Pay Popular Streamers to Astroturf Support – But When They Failed, the Secret Service Got Involved, Says a Streamer with Nearly 30 Million Followers"
https://greatawakening.win/p/17txaW5YGp/video-kamala-harriss-campaign-tr/c/
Bots to replace Reddit users that died in Ukraine.
The cool people aren't on Reddit anymore. Sounds like a waste of time and resources.
Seems like a case of preaching to the converted.
Nobody right of Stalin spends anytime in the political boards on reddit because you'll simply be censored, booted, downvoted into oblivion or all three.
Seems like an awfully expensive operation to brainwash the already brainwashed.
I tried Reddit. They got mad at me for one innocent comment, and I got downvoted like crazy making me ineligible to participate for time unspecified. I gave up. Those people are leftist wing nuts.
Correct.
Even for non-political issues. Just go to some video gaming discussion group on Reddit and ask a question about a controller you are having problems with, and you'll get downvoted. It's really stupid. Some users will have bot accounts to downvote others in what I assume is an attempt to somehow boost his own posts.
Astroturfing is one of the cabal's most critical weapons. They do that bullshit everywhere, online, offline, on TV, in print, you name it, they LARP it.
Why do you think the concept of a "silent majority" even exists?
this should make us feel better that there really isn't as many leftards as we thought.
Lmao
So tney are astroturfing bots and their own accounts. Lol. Talk about living in bubble 😂😂😂😂
As an instagram user, I can guarantee everyone she is astroturfing there too. Waves of off the wall comments from ghost accounts
Kek! That be like me upvoting my own posts. Lemme try.... Oh.... It doesn't do anything but make the little arrow change color. Derp.
How prevalent is this on Youtube?
You can manipulate a Reddit thread with a wave of a rainbow dildo and butt plug.