Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

There is so much obvious astroturfing on reddit.

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There is so much obvious astroturfing on reddit.

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Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Take this post for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1ll6ocg/see_it_say_it_censored_kneecap_is_not_the_story/

Speaking from experience, people in Ireland are overwhelmingly pro-palestine.
There is this user in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/EntireCourage308/
Its a nearly year-old account, it started posting about a month ago, it made some innoculous posts, then pivoted to posting far-right misinformation in the r/northernireland subreddit.

There’s loads of other accounts just like it.

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