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"Fake People!"

holbritter said:
Only Trump supporters make fake social media profiles?
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No, but I don't recall Democrats retweeting catfish russian bots. If you can point to one that did. That will be cool.
I think this story should be a lot bigger than it is.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Have you noticed all the free floating Trump HATE and Trump Liker HATE we have floating around?

"If you want honesty then dont be a DICK" Applies.

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ThoughtEx. said:
Not sure what this has to do with fake social media profiles...
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What he may be trying to say is that he thinks that if Trump supporters' feelings are hurt by those persons they label "snowflakes" - even and/or especially if the hurt feelings are the result of things said by Trump supporters about alleged snowflakes - then Trump supporters may be likely to respond with dishonest and that this is a reasonable grown-up response to hurt feelings.

Or something.
 
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calamity said:
I spent about a week trying to convince a couple old high school friends on FB that Pizzagate was too crazy to be real. Irony was when I pointed them to debunking articles which finally came out in WaPo and NYT, they hollered, "Fake News!"

No, dumbasses. NYT is real. Pizzagate is fake news.
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What that tells me is that propaganda works all too well. It makes we wonder how many votes Putin's trolls swung in those 3 blue states. 65,000 is not a lot of votes out of millions cast. It is now known that his trolls were targeting those areas and I also wonder how he knew they would be key to Trump's winning the election.

According to two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and committee chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), hundreds of Russian trolls were paid in 2016 to generate fake news stories about Clinton and target them at voters in key states in an effort to swing the election for Trump.

"There were upwards of a thousand paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia, in effect taking over a series of computers which are then called a botnet, that can then generate news down to specific areas," Warner said.
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https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/31/paid-russians-spread-anti-clinton-fake-news/22020336/
 
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ThoughtEx. said:
As far as I know, unless you have some examples of others doing it that you can present.
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Happens all the time. There is even a show about it - Catfish.
 
holbritter said:
Happens all the time. There is even a show about it - Catfish.
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Never seen it, so you'll have to give me a general idea of the content. Does it show many people do it for political reasons? Say a democrat making a fake profile of a black person in order to give people the idea that more black people support the democrats than actually do. Or a democrat making a fake profile that claims to be a former Republican, but because of Trump he'll never vote republican again. Or a democrat making a fake profile of a scientist to share pseudo-science as legite.

Or is it just a bunch of teenagers pretending to be hot girls in order to get guys to buy them things. Because one is a type of catfish meant to spread propaganda and influence people's opinion on a wide scale, and the other is a type of cat fishing meant to scam an individual and only affects said individual. I can see their being lots of scammers, but so far I've only seen Trump supporters playing at the propaganda version of cat fishing.

So which type does this show focus on?
 
ThoughtEx. said:
Never seen it, so you'll have to give me a general idea of the content. Does it show many people do it for political reasons? Say a democrat making a fake profile of a black person in order to give people the idea that more black people support the democrats than actually do. Or a democrat making a fake profile that claims to be a former Republican, but because of Trump he'll never vote republican again. Or a democrat making a fake profile of a scientist to share pseudo-science as legite.

Or is it just a bunch of teenagers pretending to be hot girls in order to get guys to buy them things. Because one is a type of catfish meant to spread propaganda and influence people's opinion on a wide scale, and the other is a type of cat fishing meant to scam an individual and only affects said individual. I can see their being lots of scammers, but so far I've only seen Trump supporters playing at the propaganda version of cat fishing.

So which type does this show focus on?
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Since you used plural, can I ask how many Trump supporters you found are doing this? Oh, the show isn't political.
 
holbritter said:
Since you used plural, can I ask how many Trump supporters you found are doing this? Oh, the show isn't political.
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So far, in that one link I provided I saw three that those people uncovered. Including one where they took a white dude and photo-shopped him to look middle eastern.
 
Mr Person said:
What he may be trying to say is that he thinks that if Trump supporters' feelings are hurt by those persons they label "snowflakes" - even and/or especially if the hurt feelings are the result of things said by Trump supporters about alleged snowflakes - then Trump supporters may be likely to respond with dishonest and that this is a reasonable grown-up response to hurt feelings.

Or something.
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I look around and see very few grown ups anywhere.

Getting accredited by one of the so-called Universities does not seem to make much improvement either.
 
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