I saw a disgusting amount of trolling on twitter.com in response to Long Covid Awareness Day posts by people like Julie Lam. A lot of anti-vax and covid denial rubbish. It’s really important to be aware, and make others aware, that the people who are pushing covid denial & anti-vax are getting enormous amounts of money to pay for hundreds of people working professional troll farms, running botnets, and running online groups that round up MAGA Qanon “digital warrior” volunteers, to go out and harass anything they’ve branded “woke” and stuff that might inconvenience corporations.
This is not a maybe – it’s real, and it’s well documented: The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents
This Man Helped Build The Trump Meme Army — Now He Wants To Reform It -Can the Peter Thiel associate behind the DeploraBall save the pro-Trump internet from itself? – Joseph Bernstein – BuzzFeed News Reporter Updated on January 18, 2017 at 11:25 pm Posted on December 30, 2016 at 1:16 pm “Giesea, a Washington, DC, entrepreneur and consultant, is one of the minds behind MAGA3X, a meme-happy social media organization that describes itself on Twitter as “a citizen grassroots movement that helped elect Trump” and on its website as “Freedom’s Secret Weapon.” He is also one of the organizers of the DeploraBall, now the site of a dispute threatening to destroy the alt-right — the nascent conservative alliance of hardcore trolls, white supremacists, anti-SJWs, Trumpian nationalists, and memelords — on the eve of its greatest triumph. “We just had a bad public breakup,” Giesea said. In short: Last week, Giesea, a startup veteran who has worked for Peter Thiel and the Koch brothers, and his co-organizer, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich, decided to remove a third co-organizer…”