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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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