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posted by martyb on Monday August 10 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-the-candidate-cannot-win-based-on-the-issues... dept.

Mass hijacking spree takes over subreddits to promote Donald Trump:

Dozens of discussion groups on Reddit—including those dedicated to the National Football League, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Gorillaz—were hit in a Friday morning mass takeover spree that used the subreddits to spread messages promoting President Trump.

The hijacked accounts had tens of millions of combined members. The 148,000-member subreddit Supernatural, dedicated to the TV show by the same name, was emblazoned with pro-Trump images and slogans. Reddit personnel have since restored the moderator account to its rightful owner. The image above is how the subreddit appeared when the takeover was still active. The takeovers came five weeks after Reddit banned /r/The_Donald, a leading forum for fans of the president, and hundreds of other unrelated subreddits for violating recently rewritten content rules.

Reddit personnel published this post captioned, "Ongoing incident with compromised mod accounts." Reddit personnel then warned that moderator accounts were being compromised and used to vandalize subreddits. It asked moderators of affected subreddits to report them in responses.

A larger list of subreddits reported as compromised is available at the incident report linked above.

[...] Reddit officials issued the following statement: "An investigation is underway related to a series of vandalized communities. It appears the source of the attacks were compromised moderator accounts. We are working to lock down those accounts and restore impacted communities."

[...] At the time this post went live, most or all of the affected accounts appeared to have been either restored and reverted back to their previous condition or banned for terms of service violations.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 10 2020, @10:21PM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2020, @10:21PM (#1034561) Journal

    Because vandalism really generates sympathy, right?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 10 2020, @10:25PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2020, @10:25PM (#1034564) Journal

    Well, yes, actually vandalism does generate sympathy. When I see vandalism, I feel sorry for the woman who had to raise the idiots doing the vandalism.

    • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 10 2020, @10:32PM (1 child)

      by Opportunist (5545) on Monday August 10 2020, @10:32PM (#1034566)

      I'm more wondering why she didn't drown the fuckers when she bathed them. But maybe she didn't.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @10:42PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @10:42PM (#1034579)

      Vandalism, like shit posting racist right-wing Fox News crap on a perfectly good news aggregation site . . .

      We all feel sorry for Runaway's Momma.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:47PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:47PM (#1035005)

        Lol@ sn for the insightful mod. It highlights the level of intellectual discourse to be found here nowadays.