Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row

If Facebook is used then reddit could have been used too, no big deal there. Facebook at least would take money to show ads, I don’t think they would have taken out ads on reddit though. I wouldn’t be surprised if r/the_donald is full of Russian trolls riling people up.

As this article references another article heavily, wouldn&#x27;t it be better to use that one?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;russians-used-reddit-and-tumblr-to-troll-the-2016-election" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;russians-used-reddit-and-tumbl...</a><p>That said, I don&#x27;t really see how Reddit was &quot;dragged&quot; into this whole mess. Out of all the social media sites, Reddit is the least protected and filled with most of the opinionated folks, if not outright trolls. But it seems not being a &quot;mainstream&quot; social media site has helped.

I visited the worldnews subreddit at times. The pro-Russian tilt with plenty of links to RT.com was fairly obvious. I thought about writing the moderators, but with it so obvious, I personally assumed that there was somebody on the moderation team protecting the Russian submissions.

&gt; <i>The US government has already charged 13 Russians, linked to the agency, with attempting to manipulate American voters using social media.</i><p>Is that illegal now?

&#x2F;r&#x2F;politics is just as much the other way.<p>EDIT: Not sure if the downvotes are because you feel I support Trump (I&#x27;m a Brit, I have no allegiances) or something else. But you can&#x27;t deny that &#x2F;r&#x2F;politics and the other subreddits like esist etc cause just as much drama. There&#x27;s no nuanced debate anymore. Just pick a a team and fight to the death.

Oh, so that&#x27;s why Reddit started restricting what sites can be shared on large subreddits. Anything you share on Reddit these days must be from BBC, CNN, NBC, and so on. Only large sites allowed... which is just as bad as Russian propaganda. Instead of the Russian side of events, now you only hear the pro-Western side only.

&gt; Instead it seems Russia&#x27;s aim was to provoke and divide Americans on the internet and, as a result, in the physical world too.<p>What I really don&#x27;t understand about the &quot;Russia wants to divide us!&quot; talk is, if this is such a grave concern, why do we give a free pass to identical speech originating from domestic actors? Isn&#x27;t that also dividing us as a country? BLM, #NotMyPresident, pro&#x2F;anti-gun rhetoric, etc. -- we have plenty of this kind of stuff floating around already, and in the case of BLM, &quot;the resistance&quot;, etc. it&#x27;s all seen as a good thing, or at worst, &quot;starting a dialogue on X.&quot; If spreading these kind of messages online is sowing discord in our country, why aren&#x27;t we going after domestic organizations as well?

The presidential election showed conclusively who the real propagandists in America are, and it’s not Russia. I’ll admit that I didn’t read the article, and this comment may not even be relevant, but I can’t take the Russian propaganda meme at all seriously, either in this lifetime or the next or the one after that. This meme is just more deflection and misdirection by the American media.<p>Feel free to downvote&#x2F;remove this comment.