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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by RobRivera on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:12PM (#49612399)
I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large chunk of the population is in fact influenced by it.
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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by jmspamerton on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:36PM (#49613660)
isn't reddit mostly astroturf? Try to get a conflicting opinion on anything political.
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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by RobRivera on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:06PM (#49615172)
The main traffic ones yes. News and politics definitely.

Niche ones aren't as mucb thankfully.

A large volume of content is downstream recycling of the tiktok feeds

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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by sph on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:28AM (#49622001)
People in niche subs participate in popular ones and thus are participant or influenced by astroturfing campaigns. It’s just much harder to tell at small scale, but it’s naive to continue perpetuating the meme that small Reddit subs are fine.
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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by RobRivera on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:02PM (#49628711)
I never claimed as such
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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by mitxela on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:32PM (#49620110)
"your account has been suspended for promoting hate or violence"
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Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake ... by nylonstrung on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:56AM (#49628621)
The last few months, Reddit has been inundated with Islamophobic and pro-Israel content from young accounts in a way that wasn't visible before

It seems very clearly manipulated

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