In his new book, “Murdoch’s World,” David Folkenflik reveals Fox News’ practice of using paid commenters with fake social media accounts, to deceive the online community. Folkenflik says members of Fox’s online PR staff created between twenty and a hundred fake profiles on social media accounts each. The accounts are used by PR staff in order to push the station’s extreme right-wing agenda.
Does this really come as a surprise?
Does this really come as a surprise? As a freelance writer I have encountered hundreds of help wanted postings for fake right-wing bloggers, paid commenters and bogus survey takers. Most of the positions pay between five and ten cents a post. The “paid commenters” ads usually appear on international freelancing sites, meaning you do not have to live in the United States to help push the tea party agenda here
i have often felt that some articles are plants by the right wing, they were just to extreme to be connected with Progressive politics and up to par for republicans. these things we know and the ones we don't are what fuels the republican audacity of arrogance, they are so sure because they covered every base and it is designed to nullify the Progressives, except they fail because the one ting they cannot cover is the basic moral center of the Progressive party we are not void of these character traits as they are, they think it's what we believe along with their base but we don't. they will never have a finger on our pulse because they have no idea where it is.
