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It certainly is a propaganda tool. I don't have concrete proof just yet, but I suspect subs like /r/blackpeopletwitter are being heavily manipulated. Comments d

It certainly is a propaganda tool. I don't have concrete proof just yet, but I suspect subs like /r/blackpeopletwitter are being heavily manipulated. Comments deleted en mass and rabid vote manipulation are a regular occurrence.

hue3 6y ago
Not to mention censorship. I used to participate in a large community for a popular moba, and posted proof of the gaming company having lied to users to generate views/access. After 8h the post had thousands of upvotes and comments demanding explanations from the company. As soon as it gained traction, the mods deleted the post and banned me from the subreddit. They refused to give an explanation for doing so. That convinced me that big subreddits are just an advertisement platform for specific purposes, in this case, the moba’s products.
- wongarsu 6y ago
  /r/undelete is a must-have subreddit for me for this reason.
- TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
  There are so many stories like that that I'm convinced that this is Reddit's actual business model: game the site in the interests of people who are paying them, but make it look like it's organic.
  - npongratz 6y ago
    If this article is to be believed, reddit may simply be continuing its founding tradition: https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ "...when Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users."
denimnerd42 6y ago
do you ever see how often “chinese harvesting organs” posts make it to the top? that’s pure Falun Gong propaganda. The only reputable evidence for forced organ donation is from legally executed prisoners, a practice which has been stopped. All other sources on the net lead back to Falun Gong propaganda sites. Interesting tidbit is that the Falun Dafa believe their rituals improve their organs so they have the most desirable organs to have harvested.
- squeals_colder 6y ago
  And here is a perfect example of wumao propaganda. The China Tribunal unanimously concluded that the PRC is without a doubt have been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience for a substantial period of time[0]. None of the members of the tribunal were Falun Gong practitioners. [0] https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/ https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/ Just in case this works I'll be sure to include this: 动态网自由门天安門天安门法輪功李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏土伯特唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主言論思想反共反革命抗議運動騷亂暴亂騷擾擾亂抗暴平反維權示威游行李洪志法輪大法大法弟子強制斷種強制堕胎民族淨化人體實驗肅清胡耀邦趙紫陽魏京生王丹還政於民和平演變激流中國北京之春大紀元時報九評論共産黨獨裁專制壓制統一監視鎮壓迫害侵略掠奪破壞拷問屠殺活摘器官誘拐買賣人口遊進走私毒品賣淫春畫賭博六合彩天安門天安门法輪功李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门 612罢工 612罷工 antiELAB香港遊行香港集會 ExtraditionLaw HK罢工 HK罷工 freeHongKong HK遊行 HK集會 NoChinaExtradition 反送中抗恶法抗惡法 NoExtraditionToChina 引渡逃犯撤回逃犯条例撤回逃犯條例林郑下台林鄭下台林郑月娥林鄭月娥返送中送中条例送中條例通宵遊行香港罢工香港罷工 https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI
  - disown 6y ago
    > And here is a perfect example of wumao propaganda. It's been my experience that people who use wumao, chinazi, xitler, etc are propagandists. You should really refrain using those obvious propaganda tells. It makes it impossible to take anything else you write seriously.
heavyset_go 6y ago
r/news used to have a r/The_Donald mod, and as a result, r/news would remove news articles that could make conservatives look bad even if they fit within r/news' posting guidelines. Around the time of Cesar Sayoc's, the "MAGABomber"[1], mail bomb campaign, even Wikipedia articles like "Terrorism in the United States"[2] were banned in comments, and posts that contained it would have the AutoModerator shadowban the comment instantly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGA_Bomber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGA_Bomber [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

hue3 6y ago

Not to mention censorship. I used to participate in a large community for a popular moba, and posted proof of the gaming company having lied to users to generate views/access. After 8h the post had thousands of upvotes and comments demanding explanations from the company. As soon as it gained traction, the mods deleted the post and banned me from the subreddit. They refused to give an explanation for doing so. That convinced me that big subreddits are just an advertisement platform for specific purposes, in this case, the moba’s products.

wongarsu 6y ago
/r/undelete is a must-have subreddit for me for this reason.
TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
There are so many stories like that that I'm convinced that this is Reddit's actual business model: game the site in the interests of people who are paying them, but make it look like it's organic.
- npongratz 6y ago
  If this article is to be believed, reddit may simply be continuing its founding tradition: https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ "...when Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users."

denimnerd42 6y ago

do you ever see how often “chinese harvesting organs” posts make it to the top? that’s pure Falun Gong propaganda. The only reputable evidence for forced organ donation is from legally executed prisoners, a practice which has been stopped. All other sources on the net lead back to Falun Gong propaganda sites. Interesting tidbit is that the Falun Dafa believe their rituals improve their organs so they have the most desirable organs to have harvested.

squeals_colder 6y ago
And here is a perfect example of wumao propaganda. The China Tribunal unanimously concluded that the PRC is without a doubt have been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience for a substantial period of time[0]. None of the members of the tribunal were Falun Gong practitioners. [0] https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/ https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgment/ Just in case this works I'll be sure to include this: 动态网自由门天安門天安门法輪功李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏土伯特唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主言論思想反共反革命抗議運動騷亂暴亂騷擾擾亂抗暴平反維權示威游行李洪志法輪大法大法弟子強制斷種強制堕胎民族淨化人體實驗肅清胡耀邦趙紫陽魏京生王丹還政於民和平演變激流中國北京之春大紀元時報九評論共産黨獨裁專制壓制統一監視鎮壓迫害侵略掠奪破壞拷問屠殺活摘器官誘拐買賣人口遊進走私毒品賣淫春畫賭博六合彩天安門天安门法輪功李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门 612罢工 612罷工 antiELAB香港遊行香港集會 ExtraditionLaw HK罢工 HK罷工 freeHongKong HK遊行 HK集會 NoChinaExtradition 反送中抗恶法抗惡法 NoExtraditionToChina 引渡逃犯撤回逃犯条例撤回逃犯條例林郑下台林鄭下台林郑月娥林鄭月娥返送中送中条例送中條例通宵遊行香港罢工香港罷工 https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI
- disown 6y ago
  > And here is a perfect example of wumao propaganda. It's been my experience that people who use wumao, chinazi, xitler, etc are propagandists. You should really refrain using those obvious propaganda tells. It makes it impossible to take anything else you write seriously.

heavyset_go 6y ago

r/news used to have a r/The_Donald mod, and as a result, r/news would remove news articles that could make conservatives look bad even if they fit within r/news' posting guidelines. Around the time of Cesar Sayoc's, the "MAGABomber"[1], mail bomb campaign, even Wikipedia articles like "Terrorism in the United States"[2] were banned in comments, and posts that contained it would have the AutoModerator shadowban the comment instantly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGA_Bomber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGA_Bomber [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States