My personal theory is that the popularity of Bernie phonebanking campaign on Reddit in 2015-2016 really marked a new phase where state actors and corporate interests began to flood the site to sway public narrative and to subtly advertise their products through community engagements.
It’s really sickening. It was one of the earliest subreddits I ever subscribed to, TWELVE YEARS AGO
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The same thing is happening to /r/endlesswar which was another O.G. sub
My personal theory is that the popularity of Bernie phonebanking campaign on Reddit in 2015-2016 really marked a new phase where state actors and corporate interests began to flood the site to sway public narrative and to subtly advertise their products through community engagements.