New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion - eviltoast
  • TRBoom@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I remember one specific account that spammed everything pro Tulsi into the politics subreddit. It was glaringly obvious that they were paid.

    Just checked on him, 5 months ago he was posting to sports subreddits… which also feels like a red flag.

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      4 months ago

      Is it a possibility that shill accounts are using sports subreddits to obfuscate the fact that they are still accounts? Like “Hey there fellow citizens, I’m totally a normal poster and a red blooded American who really likes sports!”.

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      The only subreddit I still check is /r/cfb because it’s by far the best college football specific part of the internet and my Fanactus account seems to have been deleted. I’m not disclosing what my old account was but I was a upper mid level account there for about 7 years, not bragging just framing, it has gotten really fucking shilly in comparison to even last year although itd been happening for a while. It crescendoed with the release of the new college football madden analog, which does make logical sense for why, but there was some hard corporate dick riding. I don’t care for sports video games that don’t involve Mario or have the word Jam in the title so I don’t know if the game is any good but it was obviously paid