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Not to mention the incredibly fake content that gets heaps of upvotes and attention. Which encourages the next fake to one up and so on.
by dusing 5y ago
Not to mention the incredibly fake content that gets heaps of upvotes and attention. Which encourages the next fake to one up and so on.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y agoThat is the state of every single large subreddit that remotely ties into personal experiences/stories though.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoIt is, and I think it’s a general problem that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. A lot of people, and I should be clear that I include myself, are consuming an endless stream of fake stories that validate their preconceptions and biases. It’s not healthy and very possibly dangerous.
- YATA0 5y agoConsidering the efforts troll farms put in during the previous election cycles on reddit, I wonder if what we're seeing in places like /r/antiwork is more or less the same. Subversion by nation-state troll farms fomenting intergenerational strife.
- idontwantthis 5y agoI think it’s more that they are jumping on the zeitgeist subreddit for Karma now to legitimize their political posts during the election.
- YATA0 5y agoThat's exactly what the Russian troll farms fomented. They were the ones who drove what the zeitgeist was.