Would Barring White Cisgender Men From Voting, Earning More Than ANY Woman, and Holding a Position on a Corporate Board Finally End Racial and Gender Discrimination in the West? Why or why not?

2016 Election

  • Bots and fake accounts disseminated an enormous amount of anti-Clinton propaganda (New York Times)
  • Reddit links to IRA-run sites have received hundreds and sometimes thousands of upvotes. Reddit admin requested details of the leak but did not respond to requests for comment once the details were sent. 9gag also did not respond to requests for comments. (Daily Beast 3)
  • Anti-Ukraine, anti-Obama, and pro-Putin/Russia accounts were created in "bot farms" and posted on every social media site you can think of, including Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine, Gab, Meetup, SoundCloud, Pokemon Go, and Livejournal (New York Times 2)
  • Tried to suppress Native Americans vote through fraudulent social media pages (Commentary Magazine)
  • "Heart of Texas" FB page posted anti-Clinton memes and even organized anti-Clinton rallies, receiving 4.8 million shares (IMAGE: Business Insider) (Business Insider)
  • Bots sent messages like "'Heads Up: If you voted for Bernie in the Primaries, the Election Board will NOT let you vote for Hillary on Nov 8.'" to Twitter users in an attempt to suppress their votes, including many influencers in the hopes that these influencers would spread the message (Business Insider)
  • Created memes and fake accounts accusing Democrats of vote rigging (IMAGE: New York Times) (New York Times 3) (Buzzfeed 3)
  • Reddit bots posted content like "'We Won’t Vote For Hillary,’ BLM Protesters Chant" to strategic subreddits like HillaryForPrison and key swing state subreddits like Wisconsin and Michigan (Wired 3)
  • Reddit user "Kevin_Milner" was paid to link to IRA-run sites and amassed 28,000 link karma (Wired 3)
  • "Heart of Texas" FB page with over 4.8 million total shares promoted secessionist propaganda (IMAGE: Politico) (Politico)

Trump

  • Claimed that Robert Mueller worked for "radical Islamic groups" (News AU)
  • Created islamophobic pro-Trump memes (IMAGE: News AU)
  • Reddit banned several sites oft-linked by t_d after a user discovered they were run by the IRA (NBC)
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