Biggest trolls online: Billionaires. Lobbyists/PR. PACs. Think tanks. THEN Russia.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/advanced-persistent-manipulators-part-one-the-threat-to-the-social-media-industry/

Clint Watts, an ex FBI agent who made his bones analyzing Putin’s social media manipulation, now says Russia is in the middle of the pack, behind other domestic disinformation sources influenced by the rich.

It’s clear that the vast rightwing money machine is trying to manipulate Americans and American media.
It’s not a big step to believe that organized Republican trolls are trying to manipulate us here at DU.

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[dchill]

1. I really like Clint Watts.

[gtar100]

2. The entitlement of republicans is beyond the pale.

And all the "fiscal conservatives" fearing a socialist takeover can be included. I guess 40 years of following economic policies that fail time and again (with the exception for a small minority) just isn't enough for them. Apparently poverty is a feature of reality and they accept exploitation as the natural order of the world. God help us if they get what they want, because they certainly won't be of any help to anyone but themselves.

[ck4829]

3. K&R