Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump’s Online Campaign
www.nytimes.com
A team of meme-makers has been flooding social media with pro-Trump posts riddled with sexist and racist tropes. Donald Trump is cheering them on.

Much of the group, which refers to itself as Trump’s Online War Machine, operates anonymously, adopting the cartoonish aesthetic and unrelenting cruelty of internet trolls.

Cheered on by Mr. Trump, the group traffics freely in misinformation, artificial intelligence and digital forgeries known as deepfakes. Its memes are riddled with racist stereotypes, demeaning tropes about L.G.B.T.Q. people and broad scatological humor.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
    4·
    11 months ago

    So…. There’s this shit going on- and my dad just disowned me because I said “America sucks.”

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      It’s usually a bit more diplomatic to explain what’s imperfect, and describe a better vision for how things could be.