Correct the Record got 10 million dollars in funding last year. That goes a looong way. It wouldn't be surprising if disinformation campaigns were rampant.
It seems to me, as an European that the last US election got many "rustles" "jimmied" particularly about finding reasons for why Trump got in, and more than why Hilary didn't. one factor that is mentioned is that people believed lies on the internet. CTR appears to me as an outsider as fighting the very real issue of Fake News but is actually fighting for the Democrats.
I could be wrong though.
Mainly I think it's interesting (and worrying) that popularist politics is associated with propaganda and manipulation and the those who see the lies are minority enlightened educated people.
I would add that the comedian Dennis Miller was also drafted into spouting pro-war propaganda on late night tv.
It was all very deliberate.
Note that the organization has been reorganized into Shareblue, you can read about their tactics and decide for yourself whether it's fake news or just politics as usual.
https://www.scribd.com/document/337535680/Full-David-Brock-C...
There were some statistical studies by Gelman on the previous elections (prior to 2016) that show that rich and middle class people in red states voted republican vs those in blue states (although rich people tend to vote republican in general). The poor basically vote democrat all the way around the country. This is why you have huge voter suppression campaigns in the poorer red states that should turn blue if enough people voted. It also explains gerrymandering to maintain minority control. Obama was an outlier in that he got more of the rich/middle class red state vote than Hillary did.
So the question is, why do middle class people in red states vote republican?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-c...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
https://np.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/4kdq7n/astroturfing_...