After three months of lackluster campaigning, baffling interviews, and a wild range of accents tailored for each audience, Vice President Kamala Harris is somehow still clinging to her position as the Democrats’ golden ticket.
The Democrats seem committed to showcasing Harris as a powerhouse candidate, despite the gaping void of substance in her campaign. And what’s their strategy to pull this off? Manipulate the public narrative so aggressively, it makes The Matrix look like a PBS show.
In an eye-opening two-part exposé, The Federalist reported that Harris’s campaign isn’t just leaning on typical PR tricks. They’re going all-in on digital propaganda, complete with a dedicated Discord server where her volunteers—essentially an army of online activists—are orchestrated to flood social media with content that makes her look like the people’s champ. It’s like multiplying social media influencers by a thousand to drown out any legitimate criticisms, creating the illusion of a groundswell of support.
But Harris’s strategy doesn’t stop at inflating her approval rating. Her team has also reportedly deployed volunteers to target X’s (formerly Twitter) “Community Notes” feature. For those who don’t know, Elon Musk designed Community Notes as a user-driven fact-checking tool where regular people can propose and vote on notes to clarify misleading tweets. The idea was that crowdsourced consensus, rather than faceless fact-checkers, would keep the platform accountable.
Yet, according to The Federalist, Harris’s campaign has been gaming this feature to manipulate public perception. Volunteers are allegedly instructed to block any Community Notes that challenge her campaign’s spin while flooding Trump or Vance posts with negative notes, whether or not they hold water.
Let’s not forget that this same Kamala Harris campaign, while so eager to censor criticism, has been pushing its own steady stream of disinformation. In fact, their Twitter feeds have been so inaccurate that even CNN’s fact-checker, Daniel Dale—who’s made his career hammering Trump—felt compelled to call her out. When CNN can’t even get behind your messaging, you know you’ve gone too far. Yet miraculously, very few of these misleading tweets have Community Notes attached to correct them. It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated effort to keep Harris’s false claims unchecked. Wonder why?
Here’s your running mate comparing Trump supporters to nazis… https://t.co/3lvMv4jybd
— KamalaHQLies (@KamalaHQLies) October 31, 2024
It’s an effective tactic: Harris can paint herself as an unstoppable force for change while burying any opposition voices under a mountain of volunteer-run “fact-checks.” According to The Federalist, Harris’s campaign’s endgame is clear: manipulate the Community Notes, silence criticism, and spin her public image until people start to believe it. Elon Musk himself has noticed these antics, and it seems he’s digging into it.
We are investigating this https://t.co/JR7gikRDxY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2024
For now, the X account “Kamala HQ Lies” has taken it upon themselves to spotlight Harris’s tactics. As it stands, Kamala Harris’s campaign knows she can’t sell her agenda on the merit of policy or her own popularity, so she’s resorted to manufacturing a digital echo chamber. And yet, in the world of the modern Democratic Party, this kind of behavior is just another Tuesday in the office. Why address real issues when you can drown them out instead?
