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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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