{"id":54193,"date":"2016-10-31T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54193"},"modified":"2016-10-31T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:02:12","slug":"hillarys-uses-paid-internet-trolls-to-downvote-negative-articles-on-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54193","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Uses Paid Internet Trolls to Downvote Negative Articles on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reddit Users Declare War On Hillary\u2019s Paid Internet Trolls<\/h1>\n

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PETER HASSON
\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n

Reddit users (also known as redditors) are growing increasingly angry at pro-Hillary Clinton political action committee (PAC)\u00a0Correct The Record over its efforts to promote a pro-Hillary narrative on the site.<\/p>\n

Redditors are especially\u00a0concerned that Correct The Record\u2019s paid internet commenters are suppressing revelations from WikiLeaks\u2019 release of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta\u2019s emails, which have produced a flood of damaging revelations about the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

\"A\u00a0<\/span>A Reddit mascot is shown at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014. REUTERS\/Robert Galbraith<\/span><\/div>\n

Reddit, which describes itself as \u201ca source for what\u2019s new and popular on the web\u201d is divided into thousands of \u201csubreddits,\u201d which the site describes as \u201csub-communities, each focused on a specific topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether or not a post does well on Reddit (and, consequently, how large of an audience it reaches) largely depends on how many \u201cupvotes\u201d and \u201cdownvotes\u201d it receives.<\/p>\n

Correct The Record is open about its efforts to combat \u201clies and misleading narratives about Secretary Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u201d on Reddit, to which it devoted one million dollars.<\/p>\n

A coordinated effort to \u201cdownvote\u201d a post could keep it from reaching a large audience on the site.<\/p>\n

Due to the anonymity the site provides its users, however, it\u2019s impossible to know the extent of Correct The Record\u2019s Reddit campaign.<\/p>\n

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But some Redditors are nevertheless sure that the PAC is actively trying to suppress negative stories about Hillary Clinton from the Podesta emails.<\/p>\n

One community\u00a0where\u00a0Correct The Record appears to be unpopular is the subreddit \/r\/WikiLeaks, which has more than 60,000 subscribers and is devoted to WikiLeaks-related news and topics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like CTR is out in force and getting smarter. Don\u2019t waste your time arguing, just dig!\u201d one user posted on \/r\/WikiLeaks Wednesday, adding: \u201cDon\u2019t let them eat up your time. Get to work digging or spreading. They\u2019re wasting cash on man hours, don\u2019t let them eat up yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PAC is similarly\u00a0unpopular on the\u00a0subreddit \/r\/DNCLeaks, which was originally devoted to crowdsourcing findings from WikiLeaks\u2019 release of emails from the Democratic National Committee but has since been repurposed to crowdsourcing revelations from the Podesta emails.<\/p>\n

That subreddit has more than 17,000 subscribers and averages 200 new subscribers every day, one of the moderators told The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

One of the top posts on \/r\/DNCLeaks right now states, \u201cCTR is in here heavy today. Make sure you are generous with your upvotes and downvotes to counteract these jerks.\u201d That post currently has\u00a01,143 points (the number of upvotes a post receives, minus the number of downvotes).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they are making a final 2 week desperate push for their terrible candidate,\u201d reads one of the post\u2019s top comments, from a Redditor who goes by the username \u201cSchlangeHatRecht.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStupid CTR slaves\u2026 Get a life and\/or a conscience instead of being a propaganda slave for a power that apparantly needs propaganda,\u201d another user \u2013\u201cletusfake\u201d \u2014 commented.<\/p>\n

\u201cCTR is being shifty. They downvote comments to \u20181\u2019 but not below so it doesn\u2019t look like them shilling. They\u2019re trying to make us seem low energy; we\u2019re not. We\u2019re MAGA!\u201d reads one popular post on subreddit \/r\/The_Donald, which is the largest pro-Trump subreddit on the site with more than 240,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n

\u201cCTR Downvoted the HELL out of my post proving the Podesta emails are verified to be 100% real and accurate. Here\u2019s the PROOF again. (don\u2019t let them downvote it again)\u201d another person posted on \/r\/The_Donald on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Whether or not, Correct The Record is doing what some Redditors say they\u2019re doing \u2014 the PAC didn\u2019t respond to an interview request from TheDC by press time \u2014 many reddit users believe the group is indeed suppressing negative stories about Hillary from the Podesta emails.<\/p>\n

And it doesn\u2019t look like those beliefs will change anytime soon.<\/p>\n

In the words of redditor \u201csockselgato,\u201d \u201cCTR is here to stay, even after this bad joke of an election and it is our duty as responsible and truth-abiding citizens to quash this wretched Thinkpol into oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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