Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R... by JoeSmithson on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:16PM (#23430955)

Steve Bannon has spoken about specifically targeting Gamergate for political recruitment, I think the role of Reddit in radicalizing young men is quite important, actually. I don't think you could write a reasonable history of the last 10 years of US politics without reference to Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and 4Chan.

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Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R... by FeepingCreature on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:38PM (#23431352)

To be fair: that doesn't mean social media has any relevance, just that some people on both sides think it does.

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Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R... by mst on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:17PM (#23431889)

Right. Dig into campaign actions and - as an example - it looks a lot like the trump campaign won wisconsin with robocalls more than with social media.

Hard to tell for sure, of course, but the recent blanketing of facebook with political advertising doesn't seem to have achieved that much except for buying Brad Parscale a ferrari.

Social media does presumably have some effect but I'm not sure how you'd tell how much/how little compared to other approaches for reaching people.

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