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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.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Snotnose on Monday August 10 2020, @10:43PM (30 children)
The guy has dementia, and the press is giving him a free pass.
At this point, Biden could be running around naked in his basement shooting bottle rockets out his buttcheeks and he'll still beat Trump. As long as he doesn't have to, I dunno, show up for a news conference. Or a debate. Or any kind of public speaking where his handlers can't control what he says.
I hate to admit I'm going to vote for a guy that is like my dad was 5 years ago yet here we are.
Um, I read that thing about Biden somewhere, it's not original to me. If I remembered where I would credit the source, but it was most definitely not me that came up with the image of Biden with bottle rockets up his ass.
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Monday August 10 2020, @11:04PM (11 children)
Yeah, Biden's got about as much remaining intelligence as a microwaved gerbil, but I'd still rather have Biden than Trump.
It's sad that an intensely senile old creep is much more appealing than the sitting President of the United States.
I suppose in a way, we're voting for whoever he picks as Vice President, for when he inevitably steps down or is declared unfit for office.
But, that's still preferable to Trump...
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:09PM
"One of Richard Gere's former pets" remains a write in option.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:53PM (5 children)
Are you sure that you don't have those two mixed up? And maybe next time you should think twice before electing a jerk like Trump to be your President? Just sayin'.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Your FUD and predictions of Biden's demise seem way too premature.
Frankly, the neighbor's dog would be preferable to Trump.
(Score: 1, Troll) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:00AM (4 children)
Trump didn't win a vacuum -- HRC was his D opposition and there's no doubt we dodged a bullet there in that she wanted to get us in a shooting war with Syria based on false pretenses and that would increase the risk of nuclear war with Russia. No matter how awful Trump is, I'll always have a bit of a soft spot for him for sending that dangerous bloodthirsty Democrat packing. Tump may be a bunion, but compared to radiation treatment that HRCancer would have imposed on us, I'll take it. Also TPP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:14PM (3 children)
And yet that still would have killed fewer Americans than Trump's "response" to COVID.
Last I checked, we were up to two 9/11s per week worth of American's dead.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:03PM (2 children)
Right -- Go on down to the Chinese New Year parade -- don't be xenophobe.
The notion that Democrats would have done better is pretty laughable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @08:36PM (1 child)
"The notion that Democrats would have done better is pretty laughable."
Umm, they did genius. Not like it was something special, they just had to NOT be idiotic MAGAs.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Friday August 14 2020, @05:19AM
Cuomo, nursing homes.
The press pretended Democrats did better is really what you mean.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:02AM (3 children)
The candidates for Biden's VP are even more frightening. Folks like Condoleezza Rice and other right wing war criminals are on his short list.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:12AM
It's a black female list. There's only so many cutthroat black female politicians to choose from. Kamala Harris, anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @07:03PM (1 child)
Why is this troll?
Condoleezza Rice was Secretary of State during the Bush "W" administration, and was complicit in the illegal wars of aggression which caused the deaths of well over a million people (per the Lancet, not the B.S. numbers from "iraqbodycount" who require an Iraqi death to be cited in two major western publications to count in their death toll. Right-wing, "check." War criminal, "check."
This is what a left publication (the name inspired from the book, "The Black Jacobins" [not the original French Jacobins] by its African American founder) has to say about Kamala Harris, another who made Biden's short list:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/foreign-policy-kamala-harris-hawk-2020-presidential-campaign-iran-north-korea-russia [jacobinmag.com]
Summary, Kamala Harris is a right-wing war hawk.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 12 2020, @01:38AM
In other words, the Lancet article is based on fantasy numbers, IraqBodyCount is based on two major "western" publications. Both ignore that most such deaths, when they aren't fantasy, weren't caused by the Bush II Administration.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 10 2020, @11:11PM (3 children)
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @12:11AM (2 children)
What odd names for Joe's grandchildren!
Then again, Bill and Hill named their daughter after an English Premier League team.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 11 2020, @12:52AM (1 child)
Aston Villa?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:12AM
No, but Huddersfield Clinton has a certain ring to it.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:47PM (3 children)
ORLY? Biden has not been asked to take a cognitive test by his doctors. [cbsnews.com] But Trump has. [washingtonpost.com]
Biden has already agreed to three debates with The Orange One. [washingtonpost.com] But I'm sure you knew that already.
Yeah. Whatever. I can't speak to your odd...ummmmm...fantasies concerning Joe Biden.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:34AM (2 children)
Biden should challenge Trump to take the SATs or the GREs or maybe just ride a bike.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:18AM (1 child)
Or just take a straight walk down a long ramp.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:49PM
Or a long walk on a short pier.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:42AM (2 children)
...you WOULDN'T vote for someone who could fire bottle rockets out his bunghole? Because that kind of reality-warping power sounds about right for what we need right now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:20AM
I could be fun to watch, especially when compared to the horror show we are forced to endure.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:53PM
No, I wouldn't for the redneck down the street from me. I'd be afraid he'd decide that we hadn't nuked enough countries, yet.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tizan on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:06AM (1 child)
Right like the press is not giving a free pass by just repeating ad-nauseum whatever he says right ?
The worst response in the world to the pandemic except may be Brazil ...nobody can point that out... (common Vietnam is doing a bang up job on social medicine and controlling flare ups than the US...you can almost see what is going to happen here after the schools open up...remember the open bars in Florida and Texas)
Coming back to the point here:
Really that is smart campaining: why take the headlines from an opposition which is digging every day their own hole.
And now back to the posting:
See the GOP had 3 years to secure the election from this kind of shenanigans...social media companies are not interested in investing against fake account or trolls (it reduces activity and thus advert payments) ...it has to be law....but they thought it will serve their guy that is ok...because Russia was succesful last time with stuff like Pizzagate etc
now the other shoe is dropping and the Chinese are playing too...
Guess who is going to ask for stronger control on social media next year if Biden wins ?
(Score: 4, Informative) by epitaxial on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:27PM
If you want to see what happens when the schools open up look no further https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/10/889718877/at-least-82-coronavirus-cases-linked-to-missouri-sleepaway-camp [npr.org]
That school in Georgia with the photo of the packed hallway already has 9 cases and 250 people in quarantine. The teachers unions should strike over this. Packing 30 children into a small room with a contagious respiratory virus is the definition of an unsafe work environment.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:35AM
You know how dementia affects coordination and movement? [alzheimer-europe.org]
Because is never nice to mock an impaired person [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:50AM (2 children)
I would vote for an inanimate carbon rod before Donald Trump.
I would vote for a warm bowl of yogurt before Donald Trump.
I would vote for a glass of Hillary's diarrhea before Donald Trump.
I would vote for literally *anything* before Donald Trump.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:14AM
President Donald Trump Jr. it is then.
(Score: 2) by srobert on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:03PM
I agree with all that. But I still won't vote for Biden.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:28PM
It's also possible that Biden isn't raising a ruckus because Trump is already dumping gasoline on his dumpster fire.
The Orange Asshole is hoisting himself on his own petard.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.