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View submission: Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit
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Comment by NeillBlumpkins at 06/12/2019 at 23:13 UTC
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Russian bot refers to what I would consider a broadly defined behavior where they gaslight conversations by regurgitating *literal Russian propaganda talking points.* Not that they are "bot accounts run by Russia". They're automatons acting in favor of Russia.
They inject distractionary talking points and disengage from the conversation. The conversation then derails from both the topic and the original discussion. It becomes a fact finding mission to help the gaslighter from being so misinformed.
Comment by thekidsarentok at 06/12/2019 at 22:33 UTC
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Yes, in their transparency reports they have made lists of " Suspicious Accounts Investigated by Reddit " https://www.reddit.com/wiki/suspiciousaccounts[1][2]
1: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/suspiciousaccounts
2: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/suspiciousaccounts
Comment by WantsToMineGold at 07/12/2019 at 00:03 UTC
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Oh yeah because Russians have never posted in there before/s
Have you seen all the BernieBots attacking Warren and Pete in there this week? Not many TD trolls lately but plenty of Russians larping as socialists from ChapoTrapHouse calling for open borders and banning all guns.
I don’t think they’re trying to paint Bernie as a socialist so he’ll win it’s for maximum division. Even Bernie doesn’t call himself a socialist but the trolls don’t care to accept capitalism or democratic socialism and keep screaming about socialism and open borders. Policies that aren’t real popular even here in California.
They’re basically repeating Fox News socialist talking points. I say all this as someone that would like Bernie to win.
Comment by Murmaider_OP at 06/12/2019 at 23:10 UTC
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I wonder when they’ll ban r/politics for vote manipulation