The Kamala Harris campaign has launched an effort to flood Reddit with pro-Harris political content to try to sway the election.
  • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    8 days ago

    The people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they’re not getting paid.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      37·
      8 days ago

      Let me get this straight; you actually think if people are using their own accounts to feign organic popularity of social media posts, news stories, and political candidates for free, that’s not astroturfing?

      • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        8 days ago

        Let me get this straight, you actually think if people are using their own feet to walk and knock on doors for free, that’s not astroturfing?!

        Same concept, different landscape. Organized != Astroturfing.

        • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
          28·
          8 days ago

          That’s the second best false equivalency fallacy I’ve heard over the past seven days! 👍🏾

          (Nothing was gonna beat “the electoral college is literally DEI for elections”, I’m sorry. Not to denigrate your efforts or anything!)

          • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            7 days ago

            No offense taken. I’m actually a little jealous of you; I can’t disassociate from reality at will, but I can see how that would be super handy.