As predicted the media tide has turned!

[Time2change2]

After a campaign of fear when they wanted us to stay in, they now want us back o work and school so sad I predicted, the good news stories and it’s safe stories are becoming prevalent. I was told ‘they don’t print good news stories’. There are many ways to brainwash convince the public get to do what you want
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[ITonyah]

Yes, a good way to spot a ‘paid poster’ is if their opinion doesn’t tally with yours. If it’s different they’re obviously being paid by some very organised yet shadowy group who believes Mumsnet drives general public opinion

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[NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite]

@HeatherIV

"I have a suspicion that they over inflated the death figures early on so that they could then under inflate them when it suited them."
Omg, I've heard it all now. Why would you want to embarrass yourself by posting such a ridiculous opinion? Don't let everyone know you are stupid.

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

She is a very regular poster in Ed but it is mostly threads about which SW London Indy to go to, or choosing an Eton housemaster so with views like that she wouldn't stand out.

[highmarkingsnowbile]

I want to get paid! I've been here for years. Never voted Tory in my life, never will. Didn't support lockdown and certainly don't now.

[Barbadossunset]

Cake I never thought she was a bot but she is about the only pro Tory and pro Brexit poster who still posts in the Brexit topic threads and the regulars there accuse her of being one.

[itwasntbluedolphin]

I quite often fail at those too, because they are so stretched they are indecipherable!

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

Do I get to do one of those "type in the following code" tests where they stretch out letters and numbers to make them look weird? I usually fail those but I am willing to give it a go.

Clavinova is defo not a bot, I usually only post in Education but have strayed because I wanted to read stuff about coronavirus. She has been posting on Ed for years and I don't think the Russians are interested in which school a child attends or which A levels they should study.

[itwasntbluedolphin]

Sorry, wrong poster! oops

[itwasntbluedolphin]

@cakeisalwaystheanswer is a bot

[Barbadossunset]

*All perfectly normal "educated" English, then they got a bit heated and did a long angry post that was barely understandable,
but clearly written by someone who barely spoke English

• they forgot to put it through Google translate or whatever software they were using*
  

Big chic so do you think this was a Russian bot?
Certainly on the Westminsterenders threads anyone who is pro Brexit and continues to post is considered by the regulars to be a bot or a Tory shill.
Maybe the regulars are right - certainly the likes of Peregrina, DGRRossetti, Helemtbymidnight and so on have seen off most Brexiteers by being unpleasant and sarcastic and sneering between themselves at anyone who dares disagree with them.
Bigchoc do you think Clavinova is a bot?

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

You are exactly right @itwasntbluedolphin. We have never really been eccentric, it was just clothes and P.G. Wodehouse type stuff.

[itwasntbluedolphin]

@cakeisalwaystheanswer If we are talking about the virus, people dying, then the key thing is to get rid of it. If you are talking about clothing and day to day habits, eccentric is ok.

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

@CalmYoBadSelf - do you qualify as a keyworker?

I still find it kind of sad that Europe has had big anti-lockdown demonstrations with all kinds of oddballs, the states even bigger and all we could manage is Jeremy Corbyn's even weirder brother and a few hangers on. I can remember when the British were viewed as eccentric, this country has become very dull.

[itwasntbluedolphin]

Propaganda has always been a part of the political landscape. Having an educated population means that people are more likely to question. What we need in the UK as a first step is an intelligent, competent, effective, informed, humane opposition.

[CalmYoBadSelf]

I don't have time to be paid for posting, I'm too busy changing the batteries in the birds while you are all locked down

[SuckingDieselFella]

I believe in bots working out of St Petersburg internet silos.

Who do you think started the penis beaker thing? Broke the internet for DAYS.

[BigChocFrenzy]

Tories believe in Momentum bots; Labour believe in Tory bots

I'm sure on an influential site like MN - must be influential as politicians keep wooing it -
there are some people from both HQs who post,
but also a far greater number of fervent supporters from both parties who post without payment

and of course those paid to "casually" mention certain commercial products

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

I think I have to accept that I may never understand the anti-vaccers and on that note go to bed.

[BigChocFrenzy]

It's just a paranoid consipracy theory that the far right in Germany have kept since the 1930s

• the technology may change, but the sheer hate behind anti-Semitism never does

[SuckingDieselFella]

@JudyCoolibar

They don't need to be paid. As I said, fanatics will do it for free. Momentum have activist training - someone on facebook let slip that he's done it. They have closed facebook pages or WhatsApp groups to put the call out then they all post on the same forum. I've seen it happen elsewhere.

[BigChocFrenzy]

It's never been rational to blame the Jews, but the poor buggers have often been demonised for pandemics and other disasters over the centuries

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

But the vaccine is supposed to contain a microchip to monitor you, they weren't invented in the 1930s so it isn't rational to blame the Jews. I still don't get it.

[cakeisalwaystheanswer]

I'm not sure where this is going my point was that these are rather extreme views but regularly aired and praised on MN by irrational people who assume that everyone votes like them.
I personally think that the tone of the Labour party will change under Stamer. He has to get back the middle voters and he's not going to do that by hurling mud at those he needs to woo. The UK needs an effective opposition but it is the govt who need to be held to account and criticised,people should not be demonised for who they voted for.

[JudyCoolibar]

*Don’t be daft, there are no ‘paid posters’8

Well, we don't know that, to be fair. There have been times when it looks very like it, notably around elections.

[BigChocFrenzy]

afaik, Piers Corbyn believes Coronavirus is a hoax and that the deaths have been caused by 5G
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