Nobody here seems to have made the connection that if this is on Twitter and Facebook then it is also on reddit dialled up 10x.
The report identified 13,946 "densely connected accounts" for anyone wanting perspective on the scale of this manipulation.
The report is worth a read if anyone has the time, there's a lot in there to mine. A lot of it is actually genuinely fucking useful insight for anyone taking part in the posting wars, you SHOULD be aware of just how many fed accounts are out there taking part in these spaces and fucking around with the discourse.
I absolutely believe that there are tens of thousands of accounts on reddit engaged in this shit.
I mean yeah we've all talked about it for a long time but hardly anyone seems to be like "yeah this is just facebook and twitter it's way fucking worse on reddit".
We're probably being explicitly targeted by report farms run by the fed networks too.
Nobody here seems to have made the connection that if this is on Twitter and Facebook then it is also on reddit dialled up 10x.
Reddit was originally pioneered with bot accounts used to generate a false sense of user engagement. There are full blown movie length documentary videos with interviews of company executives saying as much. The entire model of the business is to "Fake It Till You Make It".
Nobody here seems to have made the connection that if this is on Twitter and Facebook then it is also on reddit dialled up 10x.
The report identified 13,946 "densely connected accounts" for anyone wanting perspective on the scale of this manipulation.
The report is worth a read if anyone has the time, there's a lot in there to mine. A lot of it is actually genuinely fucking useful insight for anyone taking part in the posting wars, you SHOULD be aware of just how many fed accounts are out there taking part in these spaces and fucking around with the discourse.
I absolutely believe that there are tens of thousands of accounts on reddit engaged in this shit.
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I mean yeah we've all talked about it for a long time but hardly anyone seems to be like "yeah this is just facebook and twitter it's way fucking worse on reddit".
We're probably being explicitly targeted by report farms run by the fed networks too.
100% this. Reddit is definitely more astroturfed than either Facebook or Twitter.
Reddit was originally pioneered with bot accounts used to generate a false sense of user engagement. There are full blown movie length documentary videos with interviews of company executives saying as much. The entire model of the business is to "Fake It Till You Make It".
it's already normal on reddit to accuse anyone you disagree with of being a bot for literally no other reason.