My point is that was a coordinated operation. It was big, it was real, people got killed at the event they staged.
There was organisers promoting on social media, including 'planting' fake posts and comments to 'frame' a 'community. This started at least a week ahead of time.
There were organisers who organised 2 groups of people to attend the event. It just takes a core few to get a mob going, believe me. This included buying and distributing identical shirts, and tiki torches, for one group of protesters. The tiki troop were all paid for the night, that was obvious, and they disapeared when it was over.
This really happened, it would cost thousands of dollars, if you just paid about a dozen people for 2 weeks work. There were transportation and advertising costs, equipment costs. This is when I realised this is real, and the trolls were not some kid in his mother's basement. It was a professional team, just like you would see in a movie. But it was not fiction this was real.
Some other trolls we see are advertisers, they are paid to just post and comment to promote a candidate or an idea, but people really have a budget for these things, like Share Blue, or Correct the Record. These are different, Charlottesville was a planned and executed operation, like a military or spying operation.
My point is that was a coordinated operation. It was big, it was real, people got killed at the event they staged.
There was organisers promoting on social media, including 'planting' fake posts and comments to 'frame' a 'community. This started at least a week ahead of time.
There were organisers who organised 2 groups of people to attend the event. It just takes a core few to get a mob going, believe me. This included buying and distributing identical shirts, and tiki torches, for one group of protesters. The tiki troop were all paid for the night, that was obvious, and they disapeared when it was over.
This really happened, it would cost thousands of dollars, if you just paid about a dozen people for 2 weeks work. There were transportation and advertising costs, equipment costs. This is when I realised this is real, and the trolls were not some kid in his mother's basement. It was a professional team, just like you would see in a movie. But it was not fiction this was real.
Some other trolls we see are advertisers, they are paid to just post and comment to promote a candidate or an idea, but people really have a budget for these things, like Share Blue, or Correct the Record. These are different, Charlottesville was a planned and executed operation, like a military or spying operation.