The Democratic National Committee has a war room dedicated to manipulating press and social media to show their candidates in a positive light. Most of this manipulation involves trying to squash anything that makes a democrat look bad, so they have their work cut out for them as democrats are the worst people on the planet. In a hilarious example of this, the DNC tried desperately to save slacker doofus Beto O’Rourke from embarrassment by attempting to keep “Beto is a furry” from trending on social media.
Politico ran a piece about the DNC war room’s efforts to control the flow of information about democratic party candidates. It is presented very sympathetically, as if this isn’t the same thing Joseph Goebbels did. In fact, what the DNC is doing is very evil and should be illegal:
If it’s potentially damaging misinformation about a Democratic candidate, DNC Tech flags it for its “counter-disinformation contact” on the affected campaign and recommends that they reach out to one of the third-party fact-checkers that Facebook relies upon—such as The Associated Press, Poynter, or FactCheck.org.
A fact-check is crucial: Once it’s attached to the news, Facebook will adjust its algorithm and diminish the spread of the story.
So the DNC has the ability to “disappear” anything on Facebook they don’t like? Who is actually surprised by this? Nobody? Well, what about this:
Combating disinformation is a collective action problem. The DNC is modest about what its early detection system can accomplish and is quick to direct reporters to the campaigns.
While the campaigns and the DNC often browbeat the mainstream media into handling disinformation more responsibly, they can’t do much more than that.
Gee, they also tell the liberal media what they are allowed to report on about democratic party candidates? Seriously, why isn’t this illegal?
Somehow this gets worse:
By mid-September, the DNC had reported over 40 “misinformation incidents” that caused over 4,000 social media accounts to be removed. They helped campaigns connect with an assigned FBI field agent and a contact at the Department of Homeland Security.
While this is all pretty horrifying, there was this hilarious moment:
After the September debate, DNC Tech sent out a summary of suspicious activity it spotted by monitoring Twitter. The party found that a Twitter thread by Beto O’Rourke was the target of “dogpiling,” the technical term for when trolls coordinate on one thread to dominate the candidate’s mentions. The Beto dogpile concerned a popular meme that says Beto is a furry.
Not everything deserves a response. When the DNC reached out and reported the furry dogpile to O’Rourke’s campaign, the DNC staffer noted, “I haven’t flagged this activity to Twitter as I think the backlash to any action taken by them might be worse than the current activity.”
It’s funny that the DNC tried to save Beto’s ass on this, but it also proves that they are not fighting disinformation as Beto really is a furry. Check it out:
Even funnier is that the DNC is pulling all of these dirty tricks to make their candidates look good and they still come off as a bunch rotten corrupt liars. Imagine how bad democrats would look if there wasn’t a huge propaganda machine trying to polish these turds.
