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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 Bot on Monday August 10 2020, @10:48PM (16 children)
of course pro-trump posts stand out, reddit is basically occupied by a coordinated army of obedient globalist leftists.
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/05/reddit-power-mods-ban-users-for-pointing-out-5-mods-control-92-of-the-top-500-subs/109205/ [oneangrygamer.net]
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @10:52PM
Aww awwwwww, poor Bot facing consequences for his actions awww soo saaaad awww awwwwwww.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Username on Monday August 10 2020, @11:53PM
I hear they did the same for Biden, but nobody noticed the difference.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 11 2020, @12:57AM (13 children)
Pro Trump posts stand out because it is hard to believe that after more than 3 years there are still adults who would consider themselves pro Trump.
Maybe you have not been paying attention.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:07AM (2 children)
I know, look at all these comments, I can't believe people value things differently from me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:11AM
My what a victim complex you have there.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 11 2020, @09:25PM
You're right. Some people don't value honesty or leadership.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:11AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:15AM
:-) There's definitely no accounting for taste there!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:45PM (7 children)
Many of us don't consider ourselves pro Trump, we are just anti progressive.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:56PM (1 child)
How about just pro American? The Democrats think China is so nice of a place to live, I invite them to migrate there.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @08:42PM
I'll take China over North Korea, you Republicans are just silly!
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 11 2020, @09:29PM (4 children)
I'm aware the sole aim of many on the right of American politics is just to "own the libs" and damn the consequences.
It seems like a stupid way to run a country.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:37PM (3 children)
>It seems like a stupid way to run a country.
Trump and the progressives are putting up a pantomime, but progressives want to go beyond the concept of "country" because the root of all evil is the old order. Me thinks the problem of the old order is that it ceased when the thieves (merchants) took over the bullies (aristocracy), so you have the new order damaging society and blaming the old order. So ANY way to run a country is better than the progressive way, unless you don't care for the country.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 13 2020, @10:19PM (2 children)
So just conspiracy theories then? That seems even stupider.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 16 2020, @03:19PM (1 child)
The problem with conspiracy denialists is that by having to debunk all theories they must believe that gates is a benefactor. I rather would believe in reptilians roaming a hollow flat earth.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:43PM
Why?