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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: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:47PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:47PM (#1034620)

    The guy has dementia, and the press is giving him a free pass.

    ORLY? Biden has not been asked to take a cognitive test by his doctors. [cbsnews.com] But Trump has. [washingtonpost.com]

    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.

    Biden has already agreed to three debates with The Orange One. [washingtonpost.com] But I'm sure you knew that already.

    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.

    Yeah. Whatever. I can't speak to your odd...ummmmm...fantasies concerning Joe Biden.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:34AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:34AM (#1034672)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:18AM (#1034771)

      Or just take a straight walk down a long ramp.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:49PM (#1034898)

        Or a long walk on a short pier.