According to an investigation by The Federalist, the Harris-Walz campaign is reportedly generating content on a widely used social media site posing as everyday users, working strategically to engineer an image of popularity that doesn’t actually exist and circumventing the rules put in place to combat these kinds of efforts.
Breitbart News reports:
While Reddit is a notoriously leftist platform infamous for its censorship of a large community of Trump supporters, Harris’s campaign is deploying its staffers to manipulate the site’s algorithm even further via a massive “astroturfing” operation, which is in direct violation of [the] platform’s Terms of Service, according to a report by the Federalist.
The term “astroturfing” refers to a fake grassroots campaign, which involves campaign staffers or volunteers posing as ordinary people to create the illusion that there is more support being expressed in favor of a particular candidate or issue than there actually is.
The Federalist compared it to sketchy companies on Amazon paying people that have never purchased or used what they’re selling to write fake positive reviews, making their product appear more in demand and valuable than they actually are, allowing them to fool customers and generate sales based on lies.
Breitbart News continues:
The Harris-Walz campaign reportedly keeps a spreadsheet to track of its astroturfing efforts, which involves staffers spamming the “Politics” subreddit (reddit forums on a particular topic) — and other subreddits — with pro-Harris propaganda, and then having volunteers who pretend to be random users who just so happened to stumble upon the content post favorable comments.
After posting to Reddit, the campaign’s Lead Posters then go back to the spreadsheet and update it with links to their posts, so that campaign volunteers can then spam the posts with likes and comments, making them appear more active, which then triggers the site’s algorithm to make the content more visible to users.
The Federalist notes that what they’re doing is in blatant violation of Reddit’s Terms of Service, and members of the Harris-Walz campaign coordinate their efforts to avoid being detected and subsequently banned from the platform, according to internal Discord chats obtained by the Federalist.
This revelation serves as an example not only of Harris’s dwindling chances of electoral victory, but her perceived lack of authenticity. A candidate with promising polling numbers wouldn’t have to depend on astroturfing a website where the majority of users and moderators already heavily lean to the left. The media blitz she started in September seems have had the opposite effect as desired, as the more voters see her, the less they seem to like her — forcing her staff and volunteers to manufacture support that doesn’t exist in a desperate attempt to give her campaign a lifeline.
Since her campaign’s inception, voters and pundits alike have accused her of being fake, from her accents to her claims of working at McDonald’s to her anecdotes about preparing collard greens in a bathtub — and this latest scandal is only adding fuel to the fire.
When has the Democrat Party NOT been pulling a fast one?
They’re the disengenuous party. It’s their trademark!