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pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 08:07 PM Feb 2017

Someone is bribing people to send emails supporting DeVos.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/someone-is-paying-strangers-online-to-beg-for-betsy-dev-1791976320?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

Swagbucks.com and Instagc.com are sites where users can, in exchange for a few cents, complete small tasks such as filling out forms or surveys and—as of yesterday—begging the Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee. Someone is paying these sites to pay people to go to SupportDeVos.com, a website run by the formerly DeVos-led American Federation for Children, to express their support for her nomination.

The campaign was first spotted by a user over at Daily Kos, who found the offer on Swagbucks. Several Reddit users claimed to have discovered the same thing on Swagbucks and similar sites yesterday.

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Someone is bribing people to send emails supporting DeVos. (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2017 OP
Seems like that should thinkingagain Feb 2017 #1

thinkingagain

(906 posts)
1. Seems like that should
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 08:18 PM
Feb 2017

Be illegal wonder if we send that information to the reps it could be brought as grounds to not allow her votes?

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