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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: 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.