Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook

Re:Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit ... by wille92 on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:07PM (#11551173)

What about pro-Hillary comments coming from unofficial social media accounts? The article didn't say exactly where these comments would be coming from. I assumed they would be "astro-turf" type users that purport to be everyday reddit users but are actually affiliated with this Hillary PAC.

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Re:Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit ... by oh_sigh on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:26PM (#11551387)

So what if they are? As long as they don't misrepresent themselves, why not?

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Re:Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit ... by alistairSH on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:18PM (#11551867)

As long as they don't misrepresent themselves

An astro-turf user is by definition misrepresenting themselves. They gain credibility by presenting themselves as unaffiliated with the candidate.

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Re:Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit ... by jbob2000 on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:48PM (#11551611)

But that's what they do. There is software out there that allows one person to manage hundreds of different "personas". So they use this software to login to facebook as "Jane Smith", make a couple comments, then login as "John Doe" and reinforce the comments "Jane" made.

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