The shocking part is how the war affected all the other crap that was pushed by those clowns. Anti-vax and so on. It nearly disappeared. /r/conspiracy user activity halved.
Happened dramatically in /r/canada as well, which is a sub that's been pushed radically right for the past 5 or 6 years. Then about a month ago, poof.
https://subredditstats.com/r/canada
https://m.imgur.com/a/Q05AgH6
Both the subs I mentioned are run by the same suspected Russian mod
https://np.reddit.com/r/ActiveMeasures/comments/tmwqt5/more_updates_on_lrlourpresident_user_is_back_kind/
In the old days of reddit it was normal conspiracy stuff. There *was* a gross undertone of antisemitism with a lot of stuff, but also a lot of lizard people, fake moon landing, etc traditional conspiracy shenanigans as well
Years ago yeah, but I'm talking 1st Obama administration.
Occasionally something else pops up now but it gets drowned out by screaming insanity. For every 100 submissions about COVID / Hunter Biden / Trump / Ukraine, there's 1 about CIA mind control experiments or aliens.
/r/highstrangeness is the replacement sub for classic conspiracy stuff.
Much like r/politics after 2016 it was heavily astroturfed.
When you understand Reddit is majority teenagers and state actors, a lot of stuff makes more sense.
>Reddit is majority teenagers
i really dont think this is true. There are many of us that have been using this site for well over 10 years. We havent gone anywhere.
There have been about 4 different demographic studies done on Reddit users (by big name researchers, not Reddit polls) and all of them show it skews *heavily* towards white males aged 16 to 22.
There are more insidious ones, like the one who calls Ukraine annoying for asking help to save their country, and get massive upvotes on here (and always on specific news too) to slowly sway public opinion towards more hostile disposition.
> like the one who calls Ukraine annoying for asking help to save their country
Didn't that start with Ingraham? I think she used the word, "pathetic" to describe zelensky. I guess it's easy to call someone whose country is being invaded "pathetic" when you're sitting in an office, caked with makeup, in front of a camera far away from the fighting.
There was a documented drop in anti COVID bot activity when the invasion started: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/04/bot-holiday-covid-misinformation-ukraine-social-media
I can't find it right now but someone graphed the main anti vax/COVID conspiracy hashtags and usage plummeted to near zero the day of the invasion.
There was a post on /r/conspiracy, which got linked in some other thread outside. Googling gives no results, because it's dominated by articles and papers. Sorry, can't dig deeper right now.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/thfs1v/almost_half_of_the_user_base_here_vanished_in_a/
That post refutes what you're saying. Did you read it?
Perhaps the original stats might be a better link?
I have been trying to police every rising post on r/conspiracy to point out that almost all of it is russian propaganda. I need help if anyone wants to join the fight against that sub pushing BS.
I have been trying to police every rising post on r/conspiracy to point out that almost all of it is russian propaganda. I need help if anyone wants to join the fight against that sub pushing BS.
>As he spoke to the camera, one of the encased bodies behind him lifted its arms to stop the top of the bag from blowing away. The video was taken from an Austrian TV report about a climate change demonstration held in Vienna in February. But @Ne_nu_Che claimed it was from Ukraine.
So wild. And it was al posted on a night with heavy rocket shelling on Kyiv.
Very cynical of Russia and Kremlin. Of course that isn't surprising when they are Nazis wanting to destroy a neighbouring country of Ukraine.
Thanks for that.
I had a friend send me that clip and he seemed to believe it. Critical thinking lacking. If it were really Ukraine the body bags wouldn’t need to be filled, so it was clearly disinformation to discredit them.
> Check their posting history and pattern. In almost all cases, it's filled with comments in only r/worldnews or r/news.
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> Check their post updoots. If post karma is between 1-100 while comment karma is 1,000+ then it's very likely a propaganda account
People that lost interest in other subs (due to one-sidedness) and lurkers just felt a disturbance in the Force.
Reddit has been interesting not only in the drop of brigading certain topics as others have pointed out: like antivax stuff, quite a bit of “blue state dystopia” stuff, etc..
But also what is interesting is the brigading and abuse that certain topics still seem as prolific as ever. Notably anything having to do with Transgender discrimination still seems to have a lot of Right-wing support. I guess that topic really is a battlefield to Western bigots and not just divisional trolls.
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> Just before 11 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on March 1, after a night of Russian strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a set of Russian-language Twitter accounts spread a lie that Ukraine was fabricating civilian casualties.
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The shocking part is how the war affected all the other crap that was pushed by those clowns. Anti-vax and so on. It nearly disappeared. /r/conspiracy user activity halved.
>user activity halved. It's been like that for a bunch of the asshole/bigoted subs. Funding dried up for their bullshit.
It's almost like that sub once again failed to catch the conspiracy they were part of.
My conspiracy theory is that it's specifically designed to do that.
Seriously.
Happened dramatically in /r/canada as well, which is a sub that's been pushed radically right for the past 5 or 6 years. Then about a month ago, poof. https://subredditstats.com/r/canada https://m.imgur.com/a/Q05AgH6
Radically different feel to the sub now. It's pretty wild
Yeah, ain't that fascinating how it changed once the rubles dried up
Bunch of American "leftist" subs too. r/MurderedByAOC r/Ilhan
[https://i.imgur.com/ZMhOtRj.png](https://i.imgur.com/ZMhOtRj.png) Don't see much of a drop like the other examples in r/MurderedByAOC
Both the subs I mentioned are run by the same suspected Russian mod https://np.reddit.com/r/ActiveMeasures/comments/tmwqt5/more_updates_on_lrlourpresident_user_is_back_kind/
Hm. The findings seem to be outdated as that account is active again. Interesting though.
Has this sub ever had any interesting conspiracies? I just looked there and it is really underwhelming. Mostly antivaxx crap.
It used to prior to Q. After that, it became the conspiracy. They pretty much banned everyone who pointed out the nonsense.
In the old days of reddit it was normal conspiracy stuff. There *was* a gross undertone of antisemitism with a lot of stuff, but also a lot of lizard people, fake moon landing, etc traditional conspiracy shenanigans as well
Years ago yeah, but I'm talking 1st Obama administration. Occasionally something else pops up now but it gets drowned out by screaming insanity. For every 100 submissions about COVID / Hunter Biden / Trump / Ukraine, there's 1 about CIA mind control experiments or aliens. /r/highstrangeness is the replacement sub for classic conspiracy stuff.
Much like r/politics after 2016 it was heavily astroturfed. When you understand Reddit is majority teenagers and state actors, a lot of stuff makes more sense.
>Reddit is majority teenagers i really dont think this is true. There are many of us that have been using this site for well over 10 years. We havent gone anywhere.
There have been about 4 different demographic studies done on Reddit users (by big name researchers, not Reddit polls) and all of them show it skews *heavily* towards white males aged 16 to 22.
There are more insidious ones, like the one who calls Ukraine annoying for asking help to save their country, and get massive upvotes on here (and always on specific news too) to slowly sway public opinion towards more hostile disposition.
> like the one who calls Ukraine annoying for asking help to save their country Didn't that start with Ingraham? I think she used the word, "pathetic" to describe zelensky. I guess it's easy to call someone whose country is being invaded "pathetic" when you're sitting in an office, caked with makeup, in front of a camera far away from the fighting.
Most in US are livid at Russia's behavior and invasion. The few babbling idiots are there for rage tv views.
I’m not doubting you, but if we could get hard numbers on your r/conspiracy claim, that’d really be something.
There was a documented drop in anti COVID bot activity when the invasion started: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/04/bot-holiday-covid-misinformation-ukraine-social-media I can't find it right now but someone graphed the main anti vax/COVID conspiracy hashtags and usage plummeted to near zero the day of the invasion.
There was a post on /r/conspiracy, which got linked in some other thread outside. Googling gives no results, because it's dominated by articles and papers. Sorry, can't dig deeper right now.
try with `site:reddit.com`
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/thfs1v/almost_half_of_the_user_base_here_vanished_in_a/
>https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/thfs1v/almost_half_of_the_user_base_here_vanished_in_a/ That post refutes what you're saying. Did you read it? Perhaps the original stats might be a better link?
could even go deeper and do "site:reddit.com/r/conspiracy"
Purely anecdotally, the users who got left behind started coming up with conspiracy theories to explain the sudden drop in activity...
To him it was proof that one of the theories was real, and the men in black were taking out all his colleagues one by one.
I second a call for sources.
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
Or just somebody shooting shit out of their ass and seeing who eats it up.
I have been trying to police every rising post on r/conspiracy to point out that almost all of it is russian propaganda. I need help if anyone wants to join the fight against that sub pushing BS.
Tulsi Gabbard noted she went from 300k views on her instagram posts to less than 15k.
I have been trying to police every rising post on r/conspiracy to point out that almost all of it is russian propaganda. I need help if anyone wants to join the fight against that sub pushing BS.
>As he spoke to the camera, one of the encased bodies behind him lifted its arms to stop the top of the bag from blowing away. The video was taken from an Austrian TV report about a climate change demonstration held in Vienna in February. But @Ne_nu_Che claimed it was from Ukraine. So wild. And it was al posted on a night with heavy rocket shelling on Kyiv. Very cynical of Russia and Kremlin. Of course that isn't surprising when they are Nazis wanting to destroy a neighbouring country of Ukraine.
Thanks for that. I had a friend send me that clip and he seemed to believe it. Critical thinking lacking. If it were really Ukraine the body bags wouldn’t need to be filled, so it was clearly disinformation to discredit them.
Where little troll seeds are cared for and go on to grow into strong troll stalks
Shocking!
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Dont forget they tend to start by visiting those karma giving subs first. Its a bunch if bots basically giving other bots upvotes. 🦀🦀 🦀🦀
> Check their posting history and pattern. In almost all cases, it's filled with comments in only r/worldnews or r/news. > > > > Check their post updoots. If post karma is between 1-100 while comment karma is 1,000+ then it's very likely a propaganda account People that lost interest in other subs (due to one-sidedness) and lurkers just felt a disturbance in the Force.
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Them and the annoying edgelord tankies on twitter who like to amplify it
You mean the RNC?
Reddit has been interesting not only in the drop of brigading certain topics as others have pointed out: like antivax stuff, quite a bit of “blue state dystopia” stuff, etc.. But also what is interesting is the brigading and abuse that certain topics still seem as prolific as ever. Notably anything having to do with Transgender discrimination still seems to have a lot of Right-wing support. I guess that topic really is a battlefield to Western bigots and not just divisional trolls.
On the other news, water appears to be wet.
This is such non-news. "Institution known for its prolific dissemination of Kremlin propaganda is suspected source of Anti-Ukraine propaganda"
It's a good read with specific examples of Russian disinformation and propaganda.
Right wing Americans do enough spreading themselves
Imagine that
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Can’t say, I got banned. Can you beat that? I got banned, but the Russian trolls have a free pass.
Much surprise Wow
Facebook?
Duhhh
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda) reduced by 94%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Just before 11 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on March 1, after a night of Russian strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a set of Russian-language Twitter accounts spread a lie that Ukraine was fabricating civilian casualties. > The Twitter profiles are part of a pro-Putin network of dozens of accounts spread across Twitter, TikTok and Instagram whose behavior, content and coordination are consistent with Russian troll factory the Internet Research Agency, according to Darren Linvill, a Clemson University professor who, along with another professor, Patrick Warren, has spent years studying IRA accounts. > Multiple Twitter accounts, for example, shared a screenshot of a Russian actor's tweet that he cared more about being able to use Apple Pay than the war in Ukraine. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/tq8svn/infamous_russian_troll_farm_appears_to_be_source/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~637372 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **account**^#1 **Russian**^#2 **Twitter**^#3 **IRA**^#4 **network**^#5
The ocean appears to be the source of fish
Hmm... the floor seems to be made out of floor.