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Pointing out, fighting, spreading awareness about State sponsored and Company sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

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Conservative Bots and Bad Actors Are Swarming R/Millenials Right Now (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 months ago by mecfs to c/astroturfing

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17793163

It's unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?

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[–] DarkCloud 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Meanwhile on the r/JordanPeterson sub right now, there's a complaint about leftwing bots on r/millennials

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/1e8cwwh/uptick_in_propaganda_bots_or_post/le6m8jo/

...oh r/millennials says there's two subs... r/millennials and r/millenials with one n... Maybe that's part of what's going on.