Around the time Kamala Harris was taking over the reins of the Democratic presidential ticket, a mysterious group reportedly began a smear campaign against her, paying social media influencers tens of thousands of dollars to promote posts, according to reports.

In late July, a network of influencers who had been recruited to push conservative messages about Donald Trump or President Joe Biden throughout the summer, received an email requesting they make colorful sexual insults about Harris, according to Semafor.

In return, they would be paid tens of thousands of dollars via Zelle, a digital payments network.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
      link
      -617 days ago

      The Russophobia on this site is simply disgusting.

      It’s one of the most powerful and free countries in the known universe and Lemmy should have more respect.

      • @Doomsider
        link
        137 days ago

        Most powerful most free! Surely you can see how stupid you sound.

          • @Doomsider
            link
            77 days ago

            If I am an American and I say that the US is the best country ever I would sound stupid. So yes, you sound stupid.

              • KillingTimeItself
                link
                fedilink
                English
                46 days ago

                the military was shit on by a random farming country in the eastern european region, with literal fucking tractors.

                they’re also know for randomly arresting people for political reasons.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        14
        edit-2
        7 days ago

        Did you miss this recent news?

        Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere

        Influence Operation Relied on Influencers, AI-Generated Content, Paid Social Media Advertisements, and Social Media Accounts to Drive Internet Traffic to Cybersquatted and Other Domains

        e: or was that /s? Poe’s law broke my sarcasm detector years ago

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        86 days ago

        maybe if their leader(s) hadn’t spent 20+ years attempting to subvert global democracy and sow seeds of radical, racist violence across the internet we’d feel a touch different…

      • KillingTimeItself
        link
        fedilink
        English
        97 days ago

        im russophobic, not slavophobic. There’s a difference, thank you very much…

        /s for shitpost obviously.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
          link
          -127 days ago

          It’s not like the Russians are coming to our great country and eating our cats and dogs.