Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?

To me it almost seems like reddit has started pushing it.

  • ugtug@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Yes. I noticed it. It’s maddening. On certain things, half or more if the posts are Russian assets or bots. Reddit could do something about it, but in classic corporate fashion, the Russians increased their user engagement metrics, so they won’t do anything about it.

      • ugtug@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        The assets are easy to spot because they spout Russian propaganda, are more articulate, show up suspiciously early in threads, and often post when it is night in the USA. I generally assume the threads with a sheer mass of early comments spouting Russian propaganda are bots, since they have bad grammar, and almost never respond. I guess they could just be from a huge troll farm with bad grammar that almost never response to comments.

          • ugtug@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Also only happens before elections and in communities with a lot of users. They don’t go in to small and moderately sized groups geared toward specific topics.