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.ee
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    23 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.

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        7 minutes ago

        It’s usually not subtle, and are almost always outright lies. Statements along the lines of ‘Ukraine is infested with Nazis, so invasion was justified’, ‘The threat of Ukraine joining NATO caused the war’, ‘Russia is the new Rome’, etc.

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        17 hours ago

        sometimes they also use buzzwords too, like saying both sides, and or use it in 3rd person.

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        21 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.

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          10 hours ago

          It’s honestly frightening. If that’s what we know about God knows what else is influencing us and we don’t know they’re doing it