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crankylinuxuser 28 points 3 years ago

Anyways, in the last few days I’ve noticed that for some reason, especially on the r/piracy sub (although other subs are of course no exception), that there has been a more positive sentiment towards spez (the CEO of Reddit) and a very negative one against the mods and the protest.

Do we even know if these are actual real humans (aka: not reddit bots, admins, or shills)?

We know 100% that spez made hundreds of bots in 2012 to fake "busy-ness", and that was when reddit was started.

https://arstechnica.com/...

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TauZero 6 points 3 years ago

The article is from 2012. Reddit (and the fake profiles) was started in 2005.

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DownloadMode 3 points 3 years ago

So, the practice of using bots/multiple accounts by a corporate interest to change the sentiment/narrative in an online forum has a history that goes all the way back to 2005.

If they were doing that in 2005, I can't imagine what they are capable of now, or how widespread these types of practices are.

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