NBC News leaks Discord chat logs of Andrew Yang's campaign working with trolls
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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/andrew-yang-s-campaign-supporters-struggle-push-away-extremist-support-n993241
Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse whose research focuses on internet trolling campaigns and the alt-right, said the campaign by 4chan trolls to hijack Yang’s support base reminds her of Trump’s alt-right support in 2016, except “a little more dangerous.”
“A lot of people think lower-level trolling is fine. The issue is you can’t give them an inch,” said Phillips. “There’s a small number of people who know which buttons to push to slowly radicalize people to these racist messages. And they’ve been pushing the same exact buttons for 10 years.“
I know you can't hear me hiro, but make these people go away and mercy kill /pol/, please.
I was just reading this and although at first glance it kind of seems like an exposé on the Yang campaign, as far as I can see it actually says they have disavowed and tried their best to push away the trolls?
Yang has publicly disavowed this support, leaving staffers and supporters to play a delicate game of embracing some online promoters while distancing themselves from others.
The tension between Yang and some of his supporters has been on display in online chat rooms, one of which has been used by the campaign to organize online support. The chat rooms are hosted on Discord, an internet startup that has grown quickly in recent years and become a popular destination for internet subcultures.
In one room, moderators that run the chat have had to post rules like “no slurs, no racism. I see it, you get one warning then you're gone.” According to transcripts acquired by NBC News from a member of the chat room, the discussions have included debates on the merits of support from the alt-right and whether sentences like “jews aren't humans,” which was posted and deleted from one chat, are allowed in any way among supporters.
Even the headline suggests as much.
The thread title should say "Working against trolls," not "working with trolls" - they give diametrically opposite impressions. Working with implies that they are collaborating, when in reality, they are at odds, and the Yang campaign is actively trying to fight them off.
what a weird and pointless article
Yeah he's trying to prevent alt-right from high-jacking and smearing his campaign.
Its basically just a meme on 4chan where users basically to "fuck that alt right shit lol join the yang train for 1000 n33tbucks a month." Referencing basic income.
It's actually growing in size and it's kinda like how the alt right started before it took over /pol/ but must less dangerous as Yang is no where near as bad as Trump so I dont know what the fuck the article is on about since this hasn't really gone anywhere near newsworthy levels.
Huh fake news.
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