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Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by learc83 on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:35AM (#16502244)
Throughout the election they gamed reddit to get their stories to the front page. It went far beyond /r/the_donald.
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Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by acdha on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:44AM (#16502363)
No doubt: my point was simply that they were doing the same thing people do with things like A/B testing ads – try a bunch of things and measure the results.
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