Democrats Tried to Sabotage Roy Moore With Second Fake Facebook Campaign During Alabama Election

By The Blaze. A group of progressive Democrats tried to undermine Roy Moore’s Senate campaign by associating him with alcohol prohibition with a fake Facebook page, hoping to scare off moderate and business-oriented Republican voters, according to The New York Times.

The effort, called “Dry Alabama,” is the second reported online false flag operation by Democrats who sought to weaponize fabricated online information to influence the election.

Matt Osborne, an activist who helped with the effort, justified the tactics by claiming Republicans do the same thing.

“If you don’t do it, you’re fighting with one hand tied behind your back,” Osborne told NYT. “You have a moral imperative to do this—to do whatever it takes.”

About the fake page: Dry Alabama was a Facebook page that was made to look as if it was run by a group of Moore supporters who wanted to outlaw alcohol in Alabama. The issue is somewhat divisive among Alabama Republicans as fewer counties remain dry. (Read more from “Democrats Tried to Sabotage Roy Moore With Second Fake Facebook Campaign During Alabama Election” HERE)

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Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race

By The New York Times. The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil’s work, and the state should ban it entirely.

Along with a companion Twitter feed, the Facebook page appeared to be the work of Baptist teetotalers who supported the Republican, Roy S. Moore, in the 2017 Alabama Senate race. “Pray for Roy Moore,” one tweet exhorted.

In fact, the Dry Alabama campaign, not previously reported, was the stealth creation of progressive Democrats who were out to defeat Mr. Moore — the second such secret effort to be unmasked. In a political bank shot made in the last two weeks of the campaign, they thought associating Mr. Moore with calls for a statewide alcohol ban would hurt him with moderate, business-oriented Republicans and assist the Democrat, Doug Jones, who won the special election by a hair-thin margin. (Read more from “Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race” HERE)

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