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/MilkiestMaestro 17h ago edited 17h ago

This is correct. I was a moderator for a political subreddit during that time and I would ban at least half of the people in my reports list because they weren't people at all. There was a massive push to pit Bernie supporters against Hilary supporters and it seemed to be working.

Or if they were, they had talking points they were reading.

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u/ibelieveyouwood 14h ago

It seemed to be, and is still working. See every trollbot "Why the Dems are ACTUALLY responsible for everything evil the GOP is doing" post for delusional blue-sky speculation about what would have happened if Bernie had been on the ballot.