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.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I don’t buy the whole Russia thing because it takes the burden of guilt off of the admin and makes them look like pawns. No, the admin would be this way regardless of Russia. The Russia connection is a symptom of MAGA, not the cause.

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    They’re getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff

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    The russian propagandist has no shame these days. They openly flaunt their nationality and their influence over US media. It’s shameful and americans should ostracize these people. They are all soo scared of brown people voting in their election but give no shits when it comes to russians, a foreign adversary, pushing their agenda through propagandizing americans.

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?

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      36 minutes ago

      It is such an extreme dysfunctional problem. The right would hate immigrants, sexual/reproductive freedom without Russian interference. If some disinformation is sourced from Russia, GOP fully supporting it is a GOP blamed act. Equivalent to them paying cheaper Russian bot farms for GOP purposes.

      The complete acceptance of Russophobia propaganda around here, and the economic damage from supporting a losing war on Russia, was a factor in losing a close election, though GOP vote rigging and voter suppression, and an Israel first DNC that supports Trump, was a bigger factor. The economic damage of a losing war based on propaganda disinformation, meant that Biden could not criticize the war as defense for inflation policies.

      War on Russia will never make you happy. For all I know, midterms democrat strategy will be based on resuming war on Russia. The demonization of peace because “peace means Putin wins”, and so peace means being a servant of Putin, is both so simplistic but so effective in causing deranged views.

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        Yeah, as far as I can tell, American Democrats have just created there own version of secular Christianity, where there’s just ontologically a single source of all evil on Earth and that’s Putin. It basically means that domestic fascism is basically given a free parse, and leaves liberals trying to prevent the slide into fascism with ultranationalism, xenophobia, militancy and McCarthiest paranoia, which doesn’t work for obvious reasons.

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          24 minutes ago

          Yes if Putin is responsible for all problems, then the only solution to everything is to be angrier at Russia.

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            Yeah, that’s what I mean. Currently the democrats don’t seem very interested in actually taking action at all to address their situation, but if they actually tried to do something, how could it not just be McCarthiest purges of “Russian assets”, government censorship of “Russian propaganda” and belligerent militarism. Essentially it seems like the Democrats have rendered themselves ideologically incapable of meaningfully opposing the fascist slide.

        • zmrl@lemmy.zip
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          4 hours ago

          I was making a joke using the meme from The Office where corporate asks what the difference between two pictures is. I was using your comment as a setup to insinuate that right wing propaganda is the same as Russian propaganda.

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              4 hours ago

              Makes pretty good sense to me. They’re using the meme format to imply that there are no differences between the two, i.e. right wing propaganda is just Russian propaganda.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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        3 hours ago

        Ok? What doers that have to do with my question?

        Their goal is chaos and division.

        How did you determine this?

            • Dasus@lemmy.world
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              Good you just answer the question please

              Wow. You actually managed to get your Russian accent to come through, even when you’re online and could actually check your own spelling.

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          3 hours ago

          Because it’s painfully obvious to the point that Russia has literally explicitly admitted to it.

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    9 hours ago

    I only frequent one closed group on Reddit - the only reason I still have my account. I gather this group to be quite safe. The main page, though, is a mess, USNazis and Russians way to frequent.

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    23 hours ago

    Reddit has been protecting russian bot farms for almost a decade now.

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      16 hours ago

      they pretend to a sweep on occasion, only to have them come back even worst than before. how do we know? we know political posts suddenly becomes super quiet of any “both sides ranting” temporarily. and resemble more like lemmy posts of politics.

      and now Israel has a vested interest with reddit, because of the gaza conflict.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Reddit didn’t start pushing it, it just stopped fighting it.

    They lost a lot of human users and moderators over the last few years (during the API changes, for example) and their place was filled with “power mods” who run multiple large subreddits.

    The moderator:user ratio has gone way down and so the people who game social media to push their messaging (nation states interested in disrupting the US) are essentially unchecked.

    Now, instead of dumb bots that just copy/paste comments we have LLM-enabled ‘users’ (or even entire subreddits) that only exist to amplify these messages and manipulate the karma system to suppress opposition.

    You don’t need to be a moderator if you can just use your network of hundreds of thousands of bots to downvote people out of the conversation or to boost articles to the front page.

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      15 hours ago

      from what ive gathered, its 92 mods controlling over 500+subs, i think these are the powermods. and additionally some of these are admins themselves? or mods that are in cahoots with reddit admins.

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      1 day ago

      And yet as short staffed as they are, these mods always manage to suppress pro Luigi and anti musk content

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        15 hours ago

        its easy when they have AI/bot to filter out that, dont need much people to monitor those comments.

        AI has been banning people left and right as of recently.

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        Remember the government saying that they were going to treat anti-musk vandalism as terrorism?

        They’re not doing that by issuing press releases.

        They’re looking for “terrorists” on social media and their subpoenas to social media sites let the site know the kind of content that the government is labeling terrorism and then the site starts banning that content.

        Meanwhile they’re using that terrorism declaration to do things like charge protesters with crimes. For the ones who are on visas (like students, professors, etc) they are using those crimes as an excuse to revoke their visas and deport them.

        Reddit is censoring things that are being pursued by law enforcement because their is no safe harbor laws that protect sites from things the government declares as illegal.

        Reddit censorship is reflecting federal law enforcement priorities.

        I would be less worried about deleted posts and more worried about who’s houses are being raided due to “terrorism” charges because they’re too vocal about healthcare reform or protested in the vicinity of property damage to Musk properties

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      23 hours ago

      I just wish there was some way to educate the Redditors on this. Let them know what their Admins allow, and what they support. But I’m pretty sure if you just make a post on Reddit saying something like “Reddit is bad go somewhere else” it will be removed.

      • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        15 hours ago

        questioning any reddit habits will get removed, if your not a mod yourself.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        For the average person, the effort that it would require far outweighs any morality issues. Even if they knew the whole story.

        We should still educate people, but that isn’t going to move the needle by itself.

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    1 day ago

    Reddit will ban anything and everything except right wing bullshit.