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.
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.
I’m one week reddit free after 2 bans. I honestly don’t miss it. Recently it’s been all right-wing propaganda and conspiracies, getting banned for innocuous things, and general hate towards other users. That platform is dying fast. Here’s to Lemmy supremacy! 🥂
It’s everywhere. I’m guessing they have a lot extra free money to spend on propaganda now that they allies with the US.
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.
Yes thats why I left
Lately?
My sentiments exactly. Been an increasing problem over there since 2016 that I noticed but I’m sure there was this bullshittery there before and I just wasn’t in the subreddits where it festered.
I don’t buy the whole Russia thing because it takes the burden of guilt off of the admin and makes them look like pawns. No, the admin would be this way regardless of Russia. The Russia connection is a symptom of MAGA, not the cause.
This is naive. Russia has been waging psychological warfare on us for literally decades. They are open about this. They’ve written books about it. It is LITERALLY Russian military doctrine.
I am NOT advocating for marching on Moscow. But to ignore the psychological warfare that was amplified by, yes willing conspirators which does indicate we DO have a root problem here too, is to ignore the circumstances that brought us here.
We are only here because of the combination of old-school crazies in the Heritage Foundation controlling Fox News/trad. media and our 4chan billionaires pushing all sorts of propaganda from the depths of the internet & 4chan, which is pretty much all Russian/chinese/iranian propaganda aimed at destabilizing trust within the west.
Sure people are stupid and like conspiracies — but the conspiracy sphere is EXACTLY a target of Russian propaganda because the user base already distrusts the government and they’re a user base that’s willing to push their beliefs onto others if you can convince them… see QANON. Qanon has deep ties to both Russia AND to the tech bros, namely Thiel and Musk.
This is only possible because of the MARRIAGE OF THESE IDEAS. They are equally to blame. We are at war with Russia as much as we are at war with our own traitorous billionaires.
They’re getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff
Yeah, I don’t think it’s an uptick of Russians and right wingers so much as a downtick in sane and leftist comments.
WTF is Reddit?
Seriously though get off that site, it’s not good for you.
I’m just seeing a lot of sanitation of reddit. Must be making it advertiser friendly or kissing up to the admin.
Rather than an uptick of far-right, more like a downtick of genuine sensible people in contrast to them.
Those people are all being systematically banned or censored.
Sensible people? I seem to vaguely remember those there…
No longer on Reddit. That’s why I’m here. Kept getting banned because, “who knows”?
“Why am I banned?”
silence
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.
How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?
They’re the same picture.
What?
I was making a joke using the meme from The Office where corporate asks what the difference between two pictures is. I was using your comment as a setup to insinuate that right wing propaganda is the same as Russian propaganda.
Ok, but that makes no sense.
Makes pretty good sense to me. They’re using the meme format to imply that there are no differences between the two, i.e. right wing propaganda is just Russian propaganda.
Ok, but they’re too different, mutually exclusive countries.
Yes, that is what makes it a joke, the subversion of expectations.
It is such an extreme dysfunctional problem. The right would hate immigrants, sexual/reproductive freedom without Russian interference. If some disinformation is sourced from Russia, GOP fully supporting it is a GOP blamed act. Equivalent to them paying cheaper Russian bot farms for GOP purposes.
The complete acceptance of Russophobia propaganda around here, and the economic damage from supporting a losing war on Russia, was a factor in losing a close election, though GOP vote rigging and voter suppression, and an Israel first DNC that supports Trump, was a bigger factor. The economic damage of a losing war based on propaganda disinformation, meant that Biden could not criticize the war as defense for inflation policies.
War on Russia will never make you happy. For all I know, midterms democrat strategy will be based on resuming war on Russia. The demonization of peace because “peace means Putin wins”, and so peace means being a servant of Putin, is both so simplistic but so effective in causing deranged views.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, American Democrats have just created there own version of secular Christianity, where there’s just ontologically a single source of all evil on Earth and that’s Putin. It basically means that domestic fascism is basically given a free parse, and leaves liberals trying to prevent the slide into fascism with ultranationalism, xenophobia, militancy and McCarthiest paranoia, which doesn’t work for obvious reasons.
Yes if Putin is responsible for all problems, then the only solution to everything is to be angrier at Russia.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. Currently the democrats don’t seem very interested in actually taking action at all to address their situation, but if they actually tried to do something, how could it not just be McCarthiest purges of “Russian assets”, government censorship of “Russian propaganda” and belligerent militarism. Essentially it seems like the Democrats have rendered themselves ideologically incapable of meaningfully opposing the fascist slide.
Russia also does left wing propaganda. Their goal is chaos and division.
Ok? What doers that have to do with my question?
Their goal is chaos and division.
How did you determine this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Foundations of Geopolitics. A Russian book by an author with ties to Putin, which describes in detail and in advance everything they’ve been doing for the last few years, including the invasion of Ukraine and the psyop against America.
Good you just answer the question please
Good you just answer the question please
Wow. You actually managed to get your Russian accent to come through, even when you’re online and could actually check your own spelling.
Because it’s painfully obvious to the point that Russia has literally explicitly admitted to it.
I only frequent one closed group on Reddit - the only reason I still have my account. I gather this group to be quite safe. The main page, though, is a mess, USNazis and Russians way to frequent.
