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[–]SoCo 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It was very noticeable on Reddit at the time. You wold have swore the British population was 10 times that of China or the US's, from social media.

That was also the same time Reddit partnered with Correct The Record and forcefully mass-replaced moderators with coordinating political activists, across the majority of its larger subreddits, selling out as a political propaganda platform.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Literally every country has done this

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Some are more prolific than others.

[–]portace 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

On American social media platforms, US, British, Canadian and Israeli astroturfs run amok. US has got numerous departments running propaganda and controlling speech. India also runs a ton. Case in point, here are 64 links showing that these countries (links are mostly evidence towards US propaganda) are running mass astroturfs online:

https://www.quora.com/How-are-you-sure-that-censorship-works-the-way-you-think

Also, look at bot upvote patterns and which false narrative are purposely being spread. Better yet, just look at how MSM in numerous NATO countries match the propaganda and fake news that's being spread on social media.

Logically, social media platforms would work with intelligence agencies of their own country.

China inserts a bit of money into propaganda outside of their own country. Their propaganda mostly spreads Chinese culture. Look at their Confucius schools inserted around the world. Every so often, you also get these mass upvoted Chinese cultural stuff on reddit's front page (see their migrating elephants, the way they pour tea, etc.), which is pretty much ineffective as a soft power tool since the NATO pedophiles have these "China is a shithole" mass upvoted threads on reddit's front page every week.

Russia seems to have minimal astroturfs running on US platforms..or at least they're not very apparent. And I haven't seen a single academic study with strong, concrete proof. The number of people going against mainstream narratives (especially during this Ukraine conflict) doesn't seem to be massive and it's mostly the same people who always look at both sides of the equation.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

But not Israel...

[–]Rusty_Foster 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We created liberal shills for Howard Dean to post on forums positive things about him. Then he did the Dean scream and we lost.