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I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large

I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large chunk of the population is in fact influenced by it.

jmspamerton 25d ago
isn't reddit mostly astroturf? Try to get a conflicting opinion on anything political.
- RobRivera 25d ago
  The main traffic ones yes. News and politics definitely. Niche ones aren't as mucb thankfully. A large volume of content is downstream recycling of the tiktok feeds
  - sph 24d ago
    People in niche subs participate in popular ones and thus are participant or influenced by astroturfing campaigns. It’s just much harder to tell at small scale, but it’s naive to continue perpetuating the meme that small Reddit subs are fine.
    - RobRivera 24d ago
      I never claimed as such
- mitxela 24d ago
  "your account has been suspended for promoting hate or violence"
nylonstrung 24d ago
The last few months, Reddit has been inundated with Islamophobic and pro-Israel content from young accounts in a way that wasn't visible before It seems very clearly manipulated