The above tweet, now deleted, was identified by a “paid troll” from the Correct the Record organization, with this response:
Many of us on the left know and are friends on social media with @Karoli, who is a health-care blogger/tweeter extraordinaire (since 2009!) and who helps edit and contributes to crooksandliars.com. She has been ALL OVER this “paid troll” business since Mr. Tim Robbins made it his business to go after the “paid trolls” on twitter. Well, what she found is eye opening:
- The 88 “paid troll” accounts on twitter are not furtive or secretive at all. They are all identified, as in the tweet above, with a leading CTR_ before their initials.
- Their sole purpose on Twitter is to go after nasty tweets about Hillary with positive responses. Here are two more examples —
- Shaun King, Tim Robbins, The Young Turks, and UsUncut have all pushed this story. People like @Karoli, and like gchaucer2 here on DKos have been hit with the “Paid Troll” label. Mr. Robbins even struck out against some he suspected on Twitter. People like this:
Interestingly enough, Mr. Robbins appears to have deleted these tweets:
And Shaun King? @Karoli had this to say:
Now there is a kerfuffle over a couple of hours where Bernie groups were down on facebook, and I have already seen internet posts blaming “paid Hillary trolls” without a lot of evidence. It does look like some people supporting Hillary may have behaved badly, but as these tweets indicate, there are plenty of people supporting Bernie who have not behaved well.
Look folks, this has been a long, hard fought primary, and it is still not over, I know. But lashing out at each other in this fashion will not help. There have been bad actors on both sides. Let’s calm down, get some good sleep, and enjoy tomorrow’s primaries. Let’s remember the goal of this site: get democrats elected.
Peace.