>But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data. I don't think it is as easy to m

>But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data. I don't think it is as easy to mitigate as you make it seem. Here is a study which details a real-life sock puppet operation tested on Reddit, and the difficulties in detecting it: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...