Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?
To me it almost seems like reddit has started pushing it.
Who’s on Reddit?
Apparently far-right and russian people/bots.
Probably because it is the only content allowed now.
I’m astonished how quickly Reddit has rotted in the one year I quit.
it actually accelerated after trump won, from there we saw ban wave after ban wave that was barely targetting misinformation trolls. when i went on another forum after my early FEBURARY BAN, people recorded 3 ban waves by that time, and the midst of a 4th one, i think the luigi, upvoting is the 5th one so far.
there was nother user on the forum that recorded the statistics, there was massive surge of shadowbannings on the week i was permabanned. it is statistically relevant since theses users are the ones have 100s too thousands of accts getting shadowbanned.(yes they use it to promote advertisements)
Fuck Reddit. Lemmy is worlds better outside of missing a few niche communities
Let’s make some lemmy servers for those niche communities then
Sure I have. I’ve also noticed an uptick in far-right users reporting accounts to get them suspended and banned. For people who jump so readily to calling their ideological opponents snowflakes, they’re remarkably quick to run to Mods, who’re disappointingly happy to accommodate fasch rhetoric.
No, I haven’t. Because I no longer go on Reddit.
Also on YouTube
Maybe also has something to do with the uptick of banning left leaning people talking about the damage Trump and Musk are doing? There have been a TON of people here saying their 10+ year old accounts have been banned.
A bit too long but very explanatory, an article about Russia’s trojan horses
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/kremlin-trojan-horses/
I find the opposite… I find their content moderation has become so f****** horrible and extremely biased view towards the left side of the political / social spectrum… Half the reason why I’ve switched over to Lemmy cuz it at least promote some form of open dialogue
If you don’t like left-bias, you’re going to hate it here. Lemmy is literally created by communists.
https://github.com/LemmyNet : owned by Dessalines, Nutomic and SleeplessOne1917
I don’t mind a left bias, I just hate authoritarians on either side who suppress free speech, like those who overtake and control your beloved communist system ( assuming you are one) so easily, but hey “that’s not real communism”, right?
not true one bit, its the opposite now. it leans heavily right wing on most subs now, it just bans and or removes most criticism against right wing sources. update your info being commenting.
“open dialogue”? I’m gonna have to assume you mean some instances will censor you for criticizing Russia, because the right-wing translation of “free speech” is “when my speech is free and yours isn’t”.
See also: “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk.
I don’t know, I just have never really experienced censorship when criticizing anything on the right wing. Perhaps my issues with reddit is not the content itself as much as it is the moderators and their attempts to suppress open dialogue - we may be on the same wave length and agreement in regards to allowing criticism openly, I just think you should also consider that it’s not just happening on critics against “the right wing”.
There’s plenty of dialogue suppression, what I’m saying it that I suspect it’s suppressing the dialogue you want suppressed.
It’s been going on since 2016, and getting worse each day. The main change I’ve noticed post November 2024 is r/conservative keeps making it to the front page of popular despite having a much lower upvote tally.
yup, ive been saying that too, r/conservative was there so often i blocked it from my feed. then you have wierd right wing subs that try to pretend its both sides, like trueunpopularopion, or trueoffmychest, even askreddit wierdly becomes a rightwing sub sometimes.
i have a hunch the mods is either in cahoots with the admins themselves(many mods are known to have direct line of contact/relations with them)
Yeah this one was really noticeable for me too! I just blocked it for a while but then I unblocked it again and made it a point to downvote any of their posts whenever I saw them.
I had to leave about a year ago because of this.
Haven’t been on reddit in a while, so, no I haven’t noticed.
At the risk of going against the flow here…no?
People keep talking about how Reddit is going hard fascist…but half the posts on /r/all are about Trump being a rapist, or celebrating CyberTruck arson, or Luigi memes, etc.
I deleted my Reddit account during the third-party app bullshit and exclusively view it from the old site or OpenArtemis, so I’m not exactly going to defend them, but it isn’t nearly as bad as I’ve been seeing here.
The russian propagandist has no shame these days. They openly flaunt their nationality and their influence over US media. It’s shameful and americans should ostracize these people. They are all soo scared of brown people voting in their election but give no shits when it comes to russians, a foreign adversary, pushing their agenda through propagandizing americans.
