'One Million Moms' Behind Hallmark Lesbian Ad Backlash Is One Woman [View all]

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From the article:

One of America’s most prolific anti-LGBTQ+ groups has reportedly been inflating its numbers for years.

The right-wing advocacy organization One Million Moms was behind last week’s call to boycott the Hallmark Channel over airing a lesbian-themed commercial by the online wedding registry Zola. After a petition opposing LGBTQ+ content on the family-oriented channel the advertisement garnered more than 30,000 signatures, Hallmark decided to pull the ad — before reversing its decision just days later.

But after Out reported that the petitions circulated by anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives were fake
— allowing individuals and bots to sign multiple times — GLAAD claims those aren’t the only tactics opponents used to reverse engineer a controversy.

According to the national LGBTQ+ nonprofit, One Million Moms does not, in fact, count millions of members among its ranks. Instead the name reportedly refers to just one right-wing activist: Monica Cole. In an op-ed published on GLAAD’s website, contributor Jeremy Hooper says Cole “is quite literally the only staff member [he has] ever heard anyone name.”

To read more:

https://www.out.com/news/2019/12/17/one-million-moms-behind-hallmark-lesbian-ad-backlash-one-woman

Any bets on who might be behind many of these fake signatures and bot-driven petitions?

Note:

This thread uses information provided by tenderfoot in a response to another post of mine.

Thank you, tenderfoot.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212867796

A related post from bitteross:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12866095