[TRUM] I am the fucking President. Take me to the Capitol now.

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [TRUM] I am the fucking President. Take me to the Capitol now.

worst thing about june This poll is closed.
that god drat terrible glass animals song that	41	11.05%
only 30 days in which to trumo	75	20.22%
too hot	90	24.26%
amerikkka still exists	165	44.47%
Total:	243 votes

[Edit Poll (moderators only)]

gregday: May 23, 2003

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/2Mckat17/status/1536767089909698560?s=20

https://twitter.com/masonmennenga/status/1533521423750266881

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:19

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Jun 9, 2024 02:32

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Bethamphetamine posted:

https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1536706902545014785

is this the guy that kept saying arizona would go for trump and then that it would be overturned to trump because of reasons

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:19

Lpzie: Nov 20, 2006

just sat down at the cafe and there's a big hideous toenail clipping on the floor under me... we badly need turmp back

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:19

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

oh yeah! Happy Birthday President TrumP!

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:20

AxGrap: Jan 11, 2005; ☝☯ Ŧ𝓤𝒸Ҝ 𝓨𝕠𝔲! 🐼👽

The pledge was invented to sell flags to schools! Ahhhhhhh

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:20

Pooky: Aug 29, 2004; I post fox news so u don't have to 💋

https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1536766365083779073

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:20

Hatebag: Jun 17, 2008

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1536757260373970947

Lol this rapist under investigation for rape is on the judiciary committee? Lmao

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:20

Bethamphetamine: Oct 29, 2012

Conservative Brief, like the Daily Wire violates Facebook policies to pay for traffic.

https://popular.info/p/how-an-obscure-far-right-website?s=r

quote:

Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting. Nearly all of its articles are aggregations of Tweets, YouTube videos, or other media websites, presented with a far-right spin. Conservative Brief has been cited repeatedly for publishing false claims.

Yet Conservative Brief has emerged in 2022 as a dominant force on Facebook. It has recently become more popular on the platform than the New York Times and the Washington Post.

How did this happen?

Evidence strongly suggests that Conservative Brief is paying a network of large Facebook pages, including several controlled by prominent conservative political personalities, to post its content. This conduct, if it is indeed occurring, is in direct violation of Facebook's rules.

Conservative Brief's engagement on Facebook has exploded over the last year. According to data provided by an independent social media analytics firm, in February 2021, Conservative Brief attracted about 2,500 engagements (a combination of likes, reactions, comments, and shares) per article.

Today, each article posted by Conservative Brief attracts well over 30,000 engagements.

Conservative Brief publishes a tiny fraction of the number of articles produced by the New York Times and Washington Post � newsrooms that employ thousands of journalists producing original work. Nevertheless, Conservative Brief now receives more total engagement on a weekly basis than either the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Facebook has deprioritized news on the platform and nearly every publication has steadily seen less engagement for its content. Facebook even recently renamed its NewsFeed to Feed to reflect the change in emphasis. But Conservative Brief, as the data shows, has been able to buck the trend.

Conservative Brief does not even have its own Facebook page. (It previously operated a page at facebook.com/conservativebriefusa but that page is no longer online.) Meanwhile, the main Washington Post Facebook page has 6.6 million followers and the main New York Times Facebook page has 17 million.

Yet Conservative Brief is still able to attract more engagement overall.

Here is how it works: Each time the Conservative Brief publishes an article, a link to the article is posted by an extensive network of conservative Facebook pages with large audiences.

The network includes prominent conservative activists with large Facebook followings, including conspiracy theorist and polemicist Dinesh D'Souza (2.7 million followers), anti-Islam activist Brigitte Gabriel (1 million), right-wing author Nick Adams (1 million), conservative wunderkind CJ Pearson (663K followers), controversial former sheriff David Clarke (290K), and former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis (133K).

The same Facebook pages post links to articles from Conservative Brief, often multiple times per day. D�Souza�s Facebook page, for example, posted a dozen links to Conservative Brief on Tuesday.

Why are all these Facebook Pages posting links to Conservative Brief? Each time these pages share content from Conservative Brief, they append something called a UTM code. A UTM code is a way for publishers to know precisely how much traffic comes from a particular source. For example, when Dinesh D'Souza shared the link to the story above on Facebook, it looked like this:

(link)

Conservative Brief and other websites keep track of how many people are visiting each article through special software � most commonly Google Analytics. Normally, if Dinesh D'Souza posted a Conservative Brief link on its Facebook page, the people who clicked would show up in the Conservative Brief's Google Analytics dashboard as referral traffic from Facebook. In other words, the traffic from D�Souza�s Facebook page would be lumped in with all the other traffic from Facebook.

By appending the UTM code, D'Souza is enabling Conservative Brief to isolate the traffic D'Souza is sending to Conservative Brief. D'Souza has no access to the information, however. So absent a relationship with Conservative Brief, appending the UTM code is pointless. But the UTM code would allow Conservative Brief to track and potentially pay D'Souza for sending Conservative Brief traffic through Facebook.

The fact that all of these Facebook pages use UTM codes when posting Conservative Brief links strongly suggests that Conservative Brief is paying for traffic. That would explicitly violate Facebook rules which state that Facebook Pages "cannot accept anything of value to post content that does not feature themselves or that they were not involved in creating."

It would not be the first time that Conservative Brief has broken Facebook's rules to artificially inflate its popularity on the platform.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

UFOTacoMan: Sep 22, 2005; Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!

AxGrap posted:

Oh poo poo it's been just over 3 weeks, today's the day.

always good to clean your sink

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1536708780141985792?s=20&t=C_X6N7Y_xCSkYOzBOXO_bw

matt schlapp deez nuzt

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

Good Citizen: Aug 12, 2008; trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

https://twitter.com/bhytes1/status/1535749881259859969?s=21&t=2AQWo09EcxFo-tcDqzEUMA

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Hatebag posted:

Lol this rapist under investigation for rape is on the judiciary committee? Lmao

remember when he was supposed to be in jail by now

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

UFOTacoMan posted:

always good to clean your sink

dolphin's toilet/murder house

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:21

Virgil Vox: Dec 8, 2009

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Neil DeGrassi: The Next Generation Tyson

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:22

Hatebag: Jun 17, 2008

What other ironic appointments could we have? Nadler on the continence committee?

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:22

Zerg Mans: Oct 19, 2006

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1536757260373970947

Nadler's like "I got your pledge right here"*shits pants*

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:23

CaptainBeefart: Mar 28, 2016

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1536766365083779073

@JoeBiden the link bike station near me has no bikes. Maybe take a look into it and do something? ?

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:23

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Schmoe Cwead posted:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1536729976191451136

i mean, at least its different

ah, more antifa propaganda

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:23

Hatebag: Jun 17, 2008

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

remember when he was supposed to be in jail by now

Lol yeah, any day now!

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:23

gregday: May 23, 2003

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1536774838978760706

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:23

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1536763683526922243

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:24

Pooky: Aug 29, 2004; I post fox news so u don't have to 💋

https://twitter.com/bastarddegen/status/1536770601091600385

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:25

enabled veteran: Feb 10, 2021; I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1536757260373970947

That poo poo was written by an un-American socialist

That's why we need to remove it from being said in schools

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:27

Virgil Vox: Dec 8, 2009

Thoatse posted:

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:28

Space Jam: Jul 22, 2008

if giuliani has any inkling of how much of a human shitstain he is, he probably is loaded 24/7. dude also gets liquor sweats like crazy.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:30

gregday: May 23, 2003

https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/1536432251180924930

holy fukken lmao his voice

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:31

Fuckt Tupp: Apr 19, 2007; Science

AxGrap posted:

Not to be a lib, but having trump in power in any way is bad, having Biden is power is also bad but uff da.

im of the george carlin view that if humanity had any semblance of self-preservation or instinct towards sustainability we would've at least started attempting to fix poo poo decades ago but since they have decided the full profits ahead route towards systemic catastrophe we might as well just lol and enjoy the show

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:31

Hatebag: Jun 17, 2008

Space Jam posted:

if giuliani has any inkling of how much of a human shitstain he is, he probably is loaded 24/7. dude also gets liquor sweats like crazy.

The only inkling he's got leaks out of his scalp

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:32

Fuck You And Diebold: Sep 15, 2004; by Athanatos

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1536774838978760706

We are gonna slow these hearings down to the speed of paint drying so you can really understand how little we are doing about any of it

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:32

Pooky: Aug 29, 2004; I post fox news so u don't have to 💋

tenderjerk posted:

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1499827772621000707

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:33

Ben Nerevarine: Apr 14, 2006

Space Jam posted:

if giuliani has any inkling of how much of a human shitstain he is, he probably is loaded 24/7. dude also gets liquor sweats like crazy.

when it�s dark like that it�s called �liqueur sweats�

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:34

limp dick calvin: Sep 1, 2006; Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/1536432251180924930

holy fukken lmao his voice

I call it...jordan peterson 2

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:34

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1536774838978760706

an existential threat to democracy has an understaffed AV club

what a loving joke

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:35

tenderjerk: Nov 6, 2008; Can't post for 356 days!

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/1536432251180924930

holy fukken lmao his voice

listen to half men/half rats about cryptocurrency advice, you will be glad you did

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:35

Lpzie: Nov 20, 2006

Schmoe Cwead posted:

im of the george carlin view that if humanity had any semblance of self-preservation or instinct towards sustainability we would've at least started attempting to fix poo poo decades ago but since they have decided the full profits ahead route towards systemic catastrophe we might as well just lol and enjoy the show

did you watch the Netflix docuseries yet? i loved it. didn't realize he was a clean act at the start.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:35

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Schmoe Cwead posted:

im of the george carlin view that if humanity had any semblance of self-preservation or instinct towards sustainability we would've at least started attempting to fix poo poo decades ago but since they have decided the full profits ahead route towards systemic catastrophe we might as well just lol and enjoy the show

i plan to lol, and also lmao

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:35