Donald Trump presidential campaign is using teams of college students to spread disinformation over social media. See this article:
The article cites a team in Arizona doing it. But that probably is the only team that was caught or detected doing it. I suspect there are teams all over the country (and probably in Russia too) who are doing the same thing.
It sort of reminds me of Nov 1964 and I was a junior in college in Western Pennsylvania. A group of us volunteered to go to polls and stand a legal distance away and hand out matchbooks printed with the name of a Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature. I still was not old enough to vote or drink at the time. But the candidate offered to pay us $20 for the day, and to come to a party at his big home in the evening for free beer! Of course, the beer was the big incentive! At the time, however, I don't believe any of us would have thought to spread misinformation about candidates.
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