by 0kb00
For those who still don’t believe in shillfarms, here is proof of a DNC shillfarm on Reddit since 2015. Check old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wq51hb/c0rrect_the_rec0rd_and_sh4reblue_are_here_and/ It has archive links of admins publicly and privately confirming their presence on Reddit and even working with mods directly.
For instance, you see that Reddit admin So dypop says: “As for Sh4reblue, we’ve only become aware of their cooperation with your subreddit and others since roughly December. We’re probably taking a hands-off approach to their influence, unless reddit users start picking up on it in a widespread manner.” web.archive.org/web/20220816202457/https://archive.ph/D0N5Q
admin red taboo confirms CTR presence publicly here: “Yes, CTR is attempting to astroturf, but that doesn’t mean anything that’s pro Clinton is a result of that.” archive.ph/hevnw#selection-3307.116-3307.270
That particular shillfarm spent ~$8 million in just 2015-2016 on their astroturfing. www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2016&strID=C00578997 CTR and Sh4reblue are connected. You can see they took a ‘mandate’ in 2017 to continue their campaign. Pages 1 to 4 of their booklet are an available read here: www.scribd.com/document/337535680/Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-On-Fighting-Trump#from_embed
W1kiLeaks released an email in which a DNC staffer wrote, “Yes, Super PAC paying young voters to push back online on Sanders supporters”.
Shillfarms have an obsession with controlling what “popular opinion” is online because I guess their target voters are peer-pressure-influenced. Their M.O. is to sockpuppet to force an illusion of a majority narrative, when really it comes from a small # of paid people in comparison to the organic userbase.
1:30 of this video youtu.be/3NNwug4oOzc?t=92 shows you how easily a single person can sockpuppet hundreds of accounts. Imagine $millions being poured into this by shillfarms and you have the cancer that is all over Reddit today.