A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
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A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
Posted by TrixoftheTrade
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**Submission Statement:** This from the Atlantic takes an inside look at “Elephant Clipping” a Latvian-based conservative social-media operation that produces pro-Republican/conservative videos on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. With the help of AI and an army of outsourced editors, the videos are designed to look like ordinary people posting their opinions rather than a coordinated agenda. “Clippers” use US-based proxy servers to hide their location and the funding trail behind these operations is opaque, hidden behind shell companies and foreign finance laws to avoid campaign finance scrutiny.
Least disingenuous GOP tactics.
Luckily they haven’t found a way into the DT.
Unless…