SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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.
(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.