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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

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[-] Prking@lemmy.world 107 points 9 months ago

I popped over to Reddit for the first time since third party apps were cruelly shut down. It’s clear that Reddit has sunk to new lows. Obviously trolling and a marked decrease in the quality of content

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago

what I noticed is that posts have huge amounts of upvotes, even from small communities, and often no comments or when it does have comments its often very basic stuff, almost AI like

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Is that recent? I haven't used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)

[-] MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

I think it was there for a while, it's just gone full mask off mode and become particularly noticeable now

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