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Around the time Kamala Harris was taking over the reins of the Democratic presidential ticket, a mysterious group reportedly began a smear campaign against her, paying social media influencers tens of thousands of dollars to promote posts, according to reports.

In late July, a network of influencers who had been recruited to push conservative messages about Donald Trump or President Joe Biden throughout the summer, received an email requesting they make colorful sexual insults about Harris, according to Semafor.

In return, they would be paid tens of thousands of dollars via Zelle, a digital payments network.

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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"mystery group"

Oh yeah, a real head scratcher.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)
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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Oh my god who could it be I have literally no idea

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Nobody could ever possibly guess who it is.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Trump is literally a rapist. What could she have possibly done that could compare in the slightest?

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago
[–] YummyYugi@ani.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And you know what I've heard? I heard she had a vagina this whole time!

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately this bullshit puritan society still doesn't like women having any sort of sex. Whereas Repubs actually prefer rapists like Donald or Justices Boofer and Corrupt Clarence.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey! It could totally be some other nation state that has strong, documented ties to the party running against Harris!

/s

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could be a fat Chinese guy in his basement.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean with the cyber? Yeah probably. Of course the cyber is very big.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know why I didn't realize before today that it could have been Barron Trump!

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There must be dozens! At least eight! No doubt five other nations are doing it, and when we catch both of them, boy howdy won't that country be upset!

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Internet used to be a common resource and information system.

Now it is a propaganda warzone.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Well, yes. But only because it's cheap as dirt and massively effective.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Influencers are trash people

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Require them to be licensed, registered, and have a tax ID. Bet that'd sort out 80% of them.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Myste🇷🇺y group indeed

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's hilarious that the lede makes it appear that this story was broken by George Santos, who lies about literally everything.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Such a mystery... No way the Kremlin could be responsible, right?

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