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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

So this Arizona Republican paid teenagers to set up fake social media accounts to fool people into thinking they were real adult conservative posters, and these teens worked to help overturn the 2020 election results and support GOP covid policies. And they apparently got bonuses if enough people started to believe their posts.

"Meet Jake Hoffman, Arizona’s new Republican national committeeman.

This Queen Creek Republican burst into public view in 2020, when he ran an internet troll farm, paying teens to post conservative talking points and baseless conspiracy theories on social media — all aimed at getting then-President Donald Trump reelected.

The Washington Post in September 2020 exposed Hoffman’s Rally Forge, a digital marketing firm working with hard right Turning Point USA.

His job was to pay teenagers, some of them minors, to set up fake personas and blanket social media with thousands of nearly identical posts aimed at undermining confidence in the validity of the election and downplaying the impact of COVID-19.

In other words, Hoffman wanted to fool you into thinking these were real people spontaneously expressing deeply held conservative beliefs instead of what they were — a group of kids being paid to deceive you, reportedly scoring bonuses, to boot, if they could create enough buzz around their posts."

Link: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...ona-republican-party-we-be-crazy/73489433007/
 
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