Anonymous users are dominating right-wing
discussions online. They also spread false information
Associated Press,
by
Ali Swenson
&
Melissa Goldin
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/6/2024 6:51:54 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest.
“Extremely concerning,” X owner Elon Musk replied twice to the post this past week.
“Are migrants registering to vote using SSN?” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally of former President Donald Trump, asked on Instagram, using the acronym for Social Security number.
Trump himself posted to his own social platform within hours
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
reefdiver 4/6/2024 6:53:53 PM (No. 1694149)
Projection once again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/6/2024 6:57:15 PM (No. 1694152)
To Leftist "reporters," if it's not good for Democrats then it's false information spread by ominous, conservative crackpots.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/6/2024 7:05:31 PM (No. 1694154)
AP, didn't read it, but let me guess--crazy stuff like "Biden stole the election"?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 4/6/2024 7:12:03 PM (No. 1694160)
AP? Making an accusation of false information? Bwahahahaha!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ogden Pod 4/6/2024 7:18:05 PM (No. 1694162)
AP, clean up your own house first. Literally hundreds of false articles in the AP claiming Trump and his staff were involved with Russia. Secretly communicating with a server in Russia. Calling hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation. All spoon fed to the AP by Clinton operatives and the DNC. Yet, they believe the real threat to our democracy are anonymous posters on the internet.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/6/2024 7:29:14 PM (No. 1694166)
The AssPress ignored and actually discredited anybody who dare say the covid vaccines were neither safe or effective. So the AssPress can kiss my grits!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/6/2024 7:31:45 PM (No. 1694168)
So you say, AP. So you say...
But we've caught you out often with false 'facts'. You aren't trustworthy, at all. Why don't you get some icecream and sniff random strangers like your friend, Biden? It's more your speed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/6/2024 7:44:03 PM (No. 1694171)
***spit take***
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/6/2024 8:13:43 PM (No. 1694175)
AP is not ever to be trusted. Ever. May they go out of business.
33 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/6/2024 8:18:40 PM (No. 1694178)
Speaking of false information, AP is a prominent member of the false information peerage.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/6/2024 8:33:27 PM (No. 1694186)
Note that AP is well know for not attributing articles. Anonymous writers spew opinion as fact.
23 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/6/2024 9:21:37 PM (No. 1694223)
Say what?! Actually, you're the one who cornered the market on spreading, "false information".
18 people like this.
Associated Press…. Experts on spreading false information.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/6/2024 9:30:59 PM (No. 1694228)
SO WHAT?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/6/2024 10:23:18 PM (No. 1694248)
Every left wing accusation is a confession.
18 people like this.
When was the last time you saw "left wing" in the title of an AP article? When, if ever, was the first time?
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Is this from the onion?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/7/2024 4:48:58 AM (No. 1694330)
The Biden WH in action.
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/7/2024 8:55:36 AM (No. 1694413)
Oops, the AssPress is at it once again. They're part of the "Poodle Media" of our Federal "3-Letter Tyrants" in Washington DC. Of course there is ZERO balancing of these OpEd puss piece.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/7/2024 10:43:07 AM (No. 1694490)
This is no joke. Conservative website comment threads are now being targeted. Google and others are threatening advertising removal from sites where they find comments they don;t like. There's an example at CTH below this quote:
"Unfortunately, on an almost exact timeline as previously outlined (maximum 2024 election interference planned), Google and Big Tech have shifted approaches exactly as we predicted they would by mid-April.
They have been unable to take down The Conservative Treehouse over platform content, so they shifted strategies with the spider crawling. We are now under attack by Google Inc. for comments made by you. [see example below]:"
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/03/site-notes-and-updates/
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/7/2024 10:47:15 AM (No. 1694494)
Another, “How dare they use our tactics!” article from the left.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/7/2024 10:57:51 AM (No. 1694509)
Hey kids. You may not believe this, but when media outlets first hit the internet, they allowed reader commenting on all of their "news" reports. That ended under the Obama I Era as administration-managed propaganda got widely criticized by readers for its obvious ridiculousness. Now, this remarkably fact-free propaganda that the Right commentariat is running wild with lies.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/7/2024 11:06:05 AM (No. 1694518)
Now the left has problems with anonymous users in online discussions. That's exactly the point! Thousands of people get together, share their views, and none of them know one another.
The left doesn't like people disagreeing with them. Their response is to label anyone that disagrees with them as wrong, a liar spreading misinformation, who should be banned. It doesn't work that way no matter how much the left wants it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/7/2024 11:08:59 AM (No. 1694521)
So..what you're telling me...stolen SSN are being used to register illegals?...well that sounds like the obama/biden government hard at work...trying to stop President Trump....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/17/2024 8:38:07 AM (No. 1700807)
Most of what ails politics today started in the Clinton Era. This aspect -- media manipulation of public expression -- started during the Clinton impeachment. The phone calls to CSPAN were so overwhelmingly anti-Clinton, that CSPAN implemented a Republican/Democrat/Independent line and sampled each equally, to give the impression that the Country was evenly divided. Under the Obama Administration, we got the end of comments to news articles on AP, and most major Lefty "news" sites. They will do anything to hide the fact that the Left is largely despised in America.
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