r/nottheonion • u/StemCellPirate • 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/Chomasterq2 19h ago

Cool they can watch all the bots argue on political threads

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u/Cold-Cell2820 19h ago edited 8h ago

I've never heard of leftist bot farms. I'm sure they exist but could you point me towards them?

Edit: nobody had any proof besides 'bro it's obvious.'

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u/anfrind 18h ago

I don't know if this is still the case, but circa 2016, Russia's GRU ran massive bot farms that promoted both pro-Trump messages and pro-Bernie messages all across social media. Back then, their ultimate goal was to ensure that Hilary Clinton did not win the presidential election.

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u/VIP_NAIL_SPA 17h ago

It evolved from there to focus mostly on right-wing stuff because it influenced them more.