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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 fustakrakich on Monday August 10 2020, @10:45PM (6 children)
Only one side, babe
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @12:22AM (1 child)
Fistula, we grow tired of your obvious obfuscation of obsolete ostreperation. The obvious ovulation is that you are obligated to oblate yourself before the oblong obelisk that is the Donald.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:35AM
:-) If you kept the receipt, you might get a refund
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:20PM (3 children)
Yep, Fusty's side. And literally every other human on the planet who does not agree with Fusty 100% is on the other side.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:07PM (2 children)
And literally every other human on the planet who does not agree with Fusty 100% is on the other side.
Nope, but you show why Donald Trump is the President of the United States today. Didn't have to happen, but.. you wouldn't listen, so here you are...
Trump v. Biden!
Tanks a lot! for nothing!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:38PM (1 child)
He's President now because people like you voted for him.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @07:01PM
:-) Nice try, but we didn't vote for him.
AH! I forget! Every vote that Hillary didn't get is a vote for Trump! Of course!
If you want to win, try to put up an opposing candidate, not a 44 year incumbent chair warmer.
Nope, your party wanted Trump, even more than they wanted Sanders
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..