I have a feeling that there is a lot of professional manipulation being done on Reddit.
Practically all posts that encourage people to do something about their digital freedom and privacy, the post gets downvoted and comments contain all sorts of pro-corporate statements.
Even in case of posts that are just links to news or videos, without any additional opinions by OP.
Is there any research about this phenomenon?
It is plagued with bots and moderator shills. I don’t know about their organic userbase.
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If you were an organization with ideas to push, would you just ignore reddit? It’s pretty cheap to pay people to manage social media, especially if you don’t care about some slop from LLMs.
If it’s “full of”, I don’t know. I don’t use it anymore.
Reddit has paid shills, vigilante company employees, and customers who believe their chosen corporation is a gift from god. The mobile carrier and phone subs are the worst.
The most popular per capita location for redditors, is eglin air force base. It’s an entirely astroturfed platform for US propaganda talking points.
