Super PAC's such as Share Blue (now known as The American Independent) weaponized online shaming through troll farms. David Brock of Share Blue had a confidential memo leaked that outlined how weak Democratic support was in online comment sections, hence - they used troll farms to counter negative comments towards them. It annoyed Share Blue how Conservative comments were mostly grass-root.

A similar Super PAC for online comment trolling was known as CTR (Correct the Record) - backed by Hillary Clinton. So if you posted a negative comment about her online back before the election, you would often see these blank troll accounts leave you a friendly little reply.

It's hard to talk about this in tech because we, as a blob, enable it. It helps our companies growth and bottom line.

Dark truth.