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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.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

No longer on Reddit. That’s why I’m here. Kept getting banned because, “who knows”?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Rather than an uptick of far-right, more like a downtick of genuine sensible people in contrast to them.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] zmrl@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zmrl@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but that makes no sense.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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 -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but they're too different, mutually exclusive countries.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, that is what makes it a joke, the subversion of expectations.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ok...

Can you answer my question now?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

He already did.

The answer to "how do you tell the difference" is "you don't, because they're the exact same thing."

Right wing American propaganda is Russian propaganda, the American rightwingers are just too dumb to see it.

Also.. "mutually exclusive countries"? Consider how silly it would sound if you said "mutually exclusive people". You're just using "mutually exclusive" because you think it sounds intelligent. It does not when you use it in the wrong context.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Russia also does left wing propaganda. Their goal is chaos and division.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

Their goal is chaos and division.

How did you determine this?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 8 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.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 53 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 14 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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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

If by recent you mean 5-6 years then yes

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 20 points 23 hours ago

Reddit will ban anything and everything except right wing bullshit.

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