realcaseyrollinsM to NewsEnglish · 2 months agoThe Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platformthefederalist.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down136cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·2 months agoThe people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they’re not getting paid.
minus-squarerealcaseyrollinsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·2 months agoLet me get this straight; you actually think if people are using their own accounts to feign organic popularity of social media posts, news stories, and political candidates for free, that’s not astroturfing?
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoLet me get this straight, you actually think if people are using their own feet to walk and knock on doors for free, that’s not astroturfing?! Same concept, different landscape. Organized != Astroturfing.
minus-squarerealcaseyrollinsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·2 months agoThat’s the second best false equivalency fallacy I’ve heard over the past seven days! 👍🏾 (Nothing was gonna beat “the electoral college is literally DEI for elections”, I’m sorry. Not to denigrate your efforts or anything!)
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNo offense taken. I’m actually a little jealous of you; I can’t disassociate from reality at will, but I can see how that would be super handy.
The people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they’re not getting paid.
Let me get this straight; you actually think if people are using their own accounts to feign organic popularity of social media posts, news stories, and political candidates for free, that’s not astroturfing?
Let me get this straight, you actually think if people are using their own feet to walk and knock on doors for free, that’s not astroturfing?!
Same concept, different landscape. Organized != Astroturfing.
That’s the second best false equivalency fallacy I’ve heard over the past seven days! 👍🏾
(Nothing was gonna beat “the electoral college is literally DEI for elections”, I’m sorry. Not to denigrate your efforts or anything!)
No offense taken. I’m actually a little jealous of you; I can’t disassociate from reality at will, but I can see how that would be super handy.