Sorry, not the inter-maga war, this was way back during Trump’s first term, when TD was still a thing. They had a whole reddit groyper “army” (terminally online TD / Musk incel fanbois) who’d show up and brigade posts on r/politics, r/news, etc.

Generally not so much that it was obvious brigading (we found coordination threads in TD), but enough to try to cast doubt on events and astroturf enough “genuine commentary from ordinary people” so it could be picked up by podcasters and influencers who could amplify the “spontaneous messages and feedback”, which would turn be picked up by the less reputable right-wing "news outlets and spread from there to Faux News. It was both fascinating and scary, watching the right wing echosphere at work in detail.

We kept trying to beat back the brigaders, but honestly it was a total whack-a-mole thing, especially since spez decided that reddit was a total free speech zone during the first presidency and that he wasn’t going to do anything to help keep things in check because he was too busy building his survival bunker and sucking up to the guys with the big money.

Not that I’m bitter or anything.

Oh yeah: fuck spez.