They're paid to tweet for Mike Bloomberg. They don't necessarily support him
to flood nearly every avenue imaginable — including radio, television and the internet — with ads.
One, a recent college graduate living in Sacramento, describes himself as an ardent supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination. But he hasn’t had a steady stream of income since October, and the Bloomberg gig seemed like easy money, he said.
Describing the training, one organizer said supervisors explained that the average person has a network of about 750 people on their phones. “They told us, ‘We want you to reach out to those friends you’re comfortable talking to and then also those friends you might not have talked to in a while, but might be interested in politics,’” the organizer said.
Several organizers said they would tell a few friends they were being paid to reach out but did not disclose it to everyone they contacted.“When I text my friends — depending on the friend — a lot of people think it’s spam or my account was hacked,” an organizer living in Los Angeles said. “Once people realize it’s actually me who’s making these and it’s not spam, they kind of just figure I’m being paid for it.
Identical social media messages posted to Twitter by supporters of Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign, including paid campaign workers. Twitter says messages like these violate its policy against platform manipulation and spam.created in response to the activities of Russian-sponsored troll networks in the 2016 presidential election. The policy prohibits artificially boosting engagement on tweets and using deliberately misleading profile information.
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