New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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[–]hfxB0oyA 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Speaking of which: anyone up for some bone conducting earphones?

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, but I am up for some boner inducing cell phones.

[–]zyxzevn 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

My estimation: on the main subreddits it is about 90%.

[–]no_u 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've never seen it directed at individuals. There are very rare occasions when a bot posts a comment, though not in response to an individual.

I'd estimate that some portion of the ~50% of online bots are engaged at Reddit, and the poll's 15% seems legitimate.

Worst I've seen is mod-supported pro-Israel fanaticism and shilling on /r/worldnews. (So that one can only get relatively honest Palestine news at /r/Chomsky, /r/Palestine, /r/worldnewsvideos, /r/anime_titties, and sometimes at /r/politics .) Reddit has a mod problem, not a bot problem.

[–]Musky 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That sounds low.

[–]EternalSunset 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Old Study: At Least 15% of All Saiddit Content is Glownigger Sockpuppets Trying to Poison the Well

[–]UBERGheist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More believable though tbh I don’t see too much of that.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Of course they are completely ignoring communist organizations like actblue buying hundreds of thousands of bots in order to shape public opinion. Otherwise they would have found that over 25% of activity on reddit is comprised of bots, primarily controlled by communist organizations.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

communist organizations

ROFL 😂 😂 😂

Oh wait, you're serious 🙄

Do you even know what "communist" means?

(Hint: the American Democrats are less "communist" than Ronald Reagan.)

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm certainly hoping it gets to 100%, and all that's left of Reddit is corporations trying to sell their stuff to other corporations.

[–]UBERGheist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

15%? LOL Reddit is ground zero in the astroturfing wars and imo where a vast majority of automated chat bot interfaces came into their own. Gatekeepers, shills n bots oh my

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This was flagged on HN as bullshit article (it doesn't link to an actual source, other articles from this blog were also flagged as bullshit previously, probably ChatGPT generated): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38700038

[–]Masterblaster 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

HN has more than its share of bots, which becomes apparent if you post something against vaccines or in favor of cryptocurrency.

[–]UcDat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

its way more than that 100% of the 'frontpage' is cooperate owned along with reddits hq...