Rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats

[ExodusNirvana]

A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections, the Guardian can reveal.

In an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races, the ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing voters to support Green party candidates.

And in case many of you are wondering, yes, many of those memes and ideas were reposted here ON THE COLI

Not much in HL...but...another section of the site

 

[acri1]

Facebook does a terrible job of verifying these "companies" buying political ads

 

[AquaCityBoy]

So... Rose Twitter but on Facebook?

 

[88m3]

@Corny Batman

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

you had people on sohh pretending to be women for dikk pics so of course you're gonna have people trolling political parties.

i'm sure a lot of the posters in TLR spewing that trump and right wing talk are white hill billies pretending to be another race.

 

[OfTheCross]

And in case many of you are wondering, yes, many of those memes and ideas were reposted here ON THE COLI

Not much in HL...but...another section of the site

 

[Corny Batman]

@Corny Batman

 

[AquaCityBoy]

you had people on sohh pretending to be women for dikk pics so of course you're gonna have people trolling political parties.

i'm sure a lot of the posters in TLR spewing that trump and right wing talk are white hill billies pretending to be another race.

A mod already confirmed alt-right forums have linked to TLR and viewed certain posters as 'allies.'

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

A mod already confirmed alt-right forums have linked to TLR and viewed certain posters as 'allies.'

SMH. i blocked so many stupid ass posters in that forum the last couple of weeks. that place is just toxic.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I wanna do a deeper dive into this but have to run off to do some work today. Just google "Connor Clagg" and "Colton Duncan". Complete scumbags.

By the way, those names sound like shyt a bad novelist would make up for the President and VP of the Young Republicans.

 

[Corny Batman]

I was gonna say those sound like wrestler names Vince would give to new guys he doesn't think have it.

 

[the next guy]

At least it wasn't russia.

 

[mc_brew]

but would democrats retaliate and do the same thing.... that could be very entertaining..... dems could front a group that claims all democratic voters drink the blood of puppies and are led by an alien pedophile from planet arthcadia... this group could then claim that any republican that refused to accept trump as their lord and savior is a rino and must be purged from the party.... that's a group that could easily siphon off enough votes to allow the democrat to win.... all they'd have to do is endorse a bunch of libertarian or constitutional party candidates over the "establishment" republican rino...

 

[Bumrush Bros.]

Shiiit there are some cacs on this site trying to do the same exact thing we see yall

 

[Gains]

i'm sure a lot of the posters in TLR spewing that trump and right wing talk are white hill billies pretending to be another race.

Even in HL we've had white posters posing as black that got exposed