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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by Cknight70 on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:52AM (#15722947)
All these companies have been pushing this "Russia did it!" narrative with very little evidence or reason backing their claim. My theory why the whole Russian conspiracy is a thing is because its easier to dehumanize Russia as "the bad guys" rather than face the facts of how many people are opposed to you in your own country.

Edit: I'm not in denyal that Russia had nothing to do with the election but I think Russia's involvement is grossly over represented. Its so much easier to say "Russia did it" while ignoring why subreddits like /r/thedonald or the right propaganda caught on so much.

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by aaron-lebo on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:25AM (#15723351)
If you really believe there is no evidence, you just aren't looking, or you are very selectively deciding what qualifies as evidence. The reality is that Russia is run by a guy who assassinates political opponents and whose glory days were those of the USSR.

This is a long-running conflict with Russia. There really are issues in the US that need to be fixed (as the Soviets gladly pointed out about Jim Crow in the 1950s/1960s), but Russia is also geopolitically smart enough to attack those vulnerabilities. If you just sit down and consider why and what advantages Russia would have in spreading propaganda, it is hard to believe they aren't doing it.

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by 52-6F-62 on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:20AM (#15723307)
Huh? Pushing? The social media companies continually denied it until pressed. It was the US Intelligence Community that "pushed" it.

And the French Intelligence Community. And the Canadian Intelligence Community. And the Netherlands Intelligence Community. And the British Intelligence Community. And the German Intelligence Community...

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by josefresco on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:32AM (#15723422)
Except ... it's a thing: http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org

Dozens more resources that track, analyze and report on Russian trolling / propaganda. It's so easy to find, you must be trolling.

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