Liberal Media -- are you so sure?
Saw this from a friends posting, I figured since people were interested in attempts to influence media bias - this would be interesting.
[A] highly organized underground collective of right-wing partisans using an assortment of tactics, from tried-and-true spamming methods to the vilest and most dishonest tricks, in order to not only spread conservative disinformation throughout the internet, but to censor and suppress anything resembling a liberal opinion. Our researchers have gained access to the secure web forum where they discuss their strategy and rally their troops, and everything we have learned is detailed in this report.
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They basically collaborate what articles to boost (conservative ones), bury (liberal ones), and which [liberal] members to troll until those members snap and possibly violate TOS, where they then collectively report that person for causing problems.
The investigation can be found here, too.
[chessdev] What do people think about such underhanded, alinsky, tactics to influence the media and political discussion?
If their position is so superior why must they lie, or be accepting of lies, to pursue it?
I've heard people complain about "Liberal" books taught in schools, and people being worried about journalists arguing personal opinions on a forum, but I hadn't heard of a concerted effort to bury political stories on the top news websites - that millions of people read - until now. Just thought I'd share...