Around the time Kamala Harris was taking over the reins of the Democratic presidential ticket, a mysterious group reportedly began a smear campaign against her, paying social media influencers tens of thousands of dollars to promote posts, according to reports.
In late July, a network of influencers who had been recruited to push conservative messages about Donald Trump or President Joe Biden throughout the summer, received an email requesting they make colorful sexual insults about Harris, according to Semafor.
In return, they would be paid tens of thousands of dollars via Zelle, a digital payments network.
Russia. It’s Russia.
Hey! It could totally be some other nation state that has strong, documented ties to the party running against Harris!
/s
“mystery group”
Oh yeah, a real head scratcher.
The Russophobia on this site is simply disgusting.
It’s one of the most powerful and free countries in the known universe and Lemmy should have more respect.
Most powerful most free! Surely you can see how stupid you sound.
I don’t sound stupid.
maybe if their leader(s) hadn’t spent 20+ years attempting to subvert global democracy and sow seeds of radical, racist violence across the internet we’d feel a touch different…
Did you miss this recent news?
Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere
Influence Operation Relied on Influencers, AI-Generated Content, Paid Social Media Advertisements, and Social Media Accounts to Drive Internet Traffic to Cybersquatted and Other Domains
e: or was that /s? Poe’s law broke my sarcasm detector years ago
Trump is literally a rapist. What could she have possibly done that could compare in the slightest?
She was born a woman. That’s enough in the eyes of fascists.
The Internet used to be a common resource and information system.
Now it is a propaganda warzone.
I don’t get why they don’t attack her on her policies (like supporting Israel’s genocide), not on superficial bullshit
They also support Israel’s genocide, so…
They already attack her for not supporting Israel’s genocide enough.
If you think Republicans are going to do anything to stop Israel from wiping every single Palestinian off the face of the earth, you’re an idiot.
You mean like they could try to get leftists to vote for Jill Stein or write in Che Gueverra instead? I think they already do that, but not through right wing influencers, if you know what I mean.
