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Ah, so that's how extremists seemingly always find Reddit threads related to certain hot topics and brigade them. I used to think that it was a simple case of
by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
Ah, so that's how extremists seemingly always find Reddit threads related to certain hot topics and brigade them.
I used to think that it was a simple case of fringe folks being attracted to popular threads. But it happens frequently enough on smaller threads on otherwise moderate, modest communities that I thought something was up.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoThere is also this: http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Persona_Management http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Persona_Management And this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-psy-group-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-ps... I left reddit because with the API these disinformation campaigns are too easy to create. After watching from afar during the 2016 elections noticing weird new things happening, new patterns, I decided that I no longer knew what was real and left.