This has been true 10 years ago but now I’d actually think Reddit is significantly less trustworthy on average.
The astroturfing is insane. Literally every company I contract with has a #reddit slack channel where they orchestrate some form of astroturfing. Also most of software related subreddits are 100% astroturfed by admins who get kickbacks from promoting some SaaS or burying stories.
Basically any subreddit with external contact (discord, email etc) is open for “cooperation”.
This is not even covering major propaganda ops by troll networks, just commercial astroturfing. There’s current ongoing story that Ghislane Maxwell - yes that one - was a major mod on r/worldnews. Isn’t that just crazy?
This has been true 10 years ago but now I’d actually think Reddit is significantly less trustworthy on average.
The astroturfing is insane. Literally every company I contract with has a #reddit slack channel where they orchestrate some form of astroturfing. Also most of software related subreddits are 100% astroturfed by admins who get kickbacks from promoting some SaaS or burying stories.
Basically any subreddit with external contact (discord, email etc) is open for “cooperation”.
This is not even covering major propaganda ops by troll networks, just commercial astroturfing. There’s current ongoing story that Ghislane Maxwell - yes that one - was a major mod on r/worldnews. Isn’t that just crazy?
fucking WHAT?
EDIT: Everyone seemingly calls it a conspiracy theory with no proof
Deep dive here: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
It’s definitely a theory but I wouldn’t discard it just yet as with there power user accounts often more than a single person is using it.
Thats why Reddit is fundamentally untrustworthy - admins of influential subreddits like r/worldnews should all be transparent not some secret agents.
russian back propaganda, disgusing as conservatives is so pervasive too.