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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by S_A_P on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:18AM (#24374649)
Agreed. It seems mostly a tool to enrage people now. I cant stomach it anymore, the tin foil hat wearing part of me would say there are larger forces at work here. The flipside of these subreddits(public freakout, etc) is that a non-trivial percentage of these things are/could be fake.

To the main point of the article- Reddit must really get a lot of dough monetizing user data because its as bad or worse than ad/malware...

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by GhostVII on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:22PM (#24376354)
There definitely are larger forces at work, plenty of times I see what is pretty clearly political propoganda on the front page. Iran had a lot of success in r/worldnews [0]. I actually noticed a lot of pro-iran propoganda on Reddit when the US killed their general, the post would be pro-Iran and all the comments would be against it, mostly stopped after they shot down the plane though.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/volunteers-found-iran...

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