Tulsi Gabbard’s Digital Army

Behind Tulsi Gabbard’s rise, leaked records suggest a years-long effort to manufacture the appearance of authentic support.

Buried in a new report about Tulsi Gabbard’s spiritual influences is a troubling section describing a social media manipulation campaign stretching for years of her political career, with members of the cult she was raised in using fake social media accounts to attack her critics and inflate her popularity online — a campaign that Gabbard herself was not only aware of, but also reportedly participated in.