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Thank you enormously.
I am a moderator on /r/Esptein. A few months ago a former American cop Mark Dougan (who since his involvement in the Epstein case has taken asylum in Russia and who you may recall from his role in the Seth Rich conspiracy, another Russian disinformation campaign[1]) posted on our subreddit concerning a press release. Prior to doing so he confirmed his identity with the moderators. Here[2] is the post.
1: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/yahoo-news/conspiracyland
I have read fairly extensively about the (batshit) Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies -- it's clear both incorporate elements of the Epstein scandal and were promoted by IRA linked accounts on multiple platforms (for more see these seminal Rolling Stones[3] and NYT[4] investigations). Since the Dougan post it has been a constant concern of mine that disinformation has entered the subreddit. There have been more than a few posts where I suspect vote manipulation has occurred and there have been many comments that strike me as the kind of content we witnessed in /r/The_Donald in the lead up to the 2016 election.
3: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/
4: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media/pizzagate.html
I have roughly 100 questions but I'll stick to the most pressing: What tools are available to me to figure out whether coordination is occurring? Where can I report suspicious activity?
Edit: tense, a few more links
Comment by CheapBastid at 07/12/2019 at 00:28 UTC
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There have been more than a few posts where I suspected vote manipulation