I apologize as I didn’t fully get everything. This was just posted 15 minutes ago on Subreddit Drama, and if Reddit decides to delete it, here it is on Lemmy.

Direct link: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ocisqr/comment/nkmq44a/

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Coordinated Alt-Right misinformation network being pushed to the front page of Reddit.

I have noticed these subs infesting my feed for awhile now and decided to take a deeper look. this shit is scary, and symptomatic of our current information landscape. and it will only get worse.

there are a shared group of moderators: https://www.reddit.com/user/SwimmerPlus3383/submitted/

https://www.reddit.com/user/dead-end-kid/

https://www.reddit.com/user/InternationalYou4065/

https://www.reddit.com/user/00dayoff/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ptlegion/

Im sure there are more, Dead-end-kid is a consistent link between all these communities, two of the most popular being: https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeNewsandPolitics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThisMadeMe/

These subreddits are flooded with misinformation designed to rage bait the user, these are often racially charged. an example being:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThisMadeMe/comments/1ocfeot/an_immigrant_harassed_a_young_man_on_the_tube_he/

Where a video from 2023 in RUSSIA, was framed to be a British teen being harassed by immigrants. there are plenty more examples of this if you look yourself.

These subreddits have been floating to the top of peoples feeds for some reason, whether these users are botting engagement to get there, or are manipulating the algorithm, or hell being put there on purpose by reddit. i do not know. what i do know is that this is symptomatic of our society at the moment, and that people should keep their eyes open, and also report the shit out of these assholes.

EDIT: some lovely person has linked a post that is relevant to this from 4 months ago, i urge you to check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1l8hno6/palantir_may_be_engaging_in_a_coordinated/

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 hours ago

    People forget how big the astroturfed sub r/The_Donald was in 2015.

    It was literally the most popular sub on Reddit that year, with multiple posts an hr getting to the front page for like half a year.

    Then reddit banned it after Trump was elected…

    It was a clear troll farm operation, i don’t think anything came of it besides it being lumped in with the DOJ+FBI report that proved Russia and China helped Trump get elected through social media propaganda.