A large corporate media site of forums in which readers vote stories up/down. As its popularity grew, it was subject to increased trolling and shilling by propagandists. |
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Founders: Aaron Swartz, Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian
Owner: Advance Publications
Staff: 71
Constitutes: corporate media, forum
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Reddit is a social media site which, while is is firmly corporate-controlled, has nevertheless assisted in various important stories such as the murder of Sunny Sheu. This was especially true in its early days, before its popularity made it a target for systematic research on misdirection by methods such as paid shills.
Funding
Investors include Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway and Jared Leto.
Rise of propaganda
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An unknown number of people are believed to work on Reddit as trolls or shills, as outlined by "Confessions of a paid shill on Reddit", a 2015 post there. As a 2019 post remarked, "deep research rarely happens here because shills and useful idiots downvote it to oblivion."[1]
Reddit’s Director of Policy, Jessica Ashooh, is the Atlantic Council’s former Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director, and an ex-official of the government of the United Arab Emirates. She joined Reddit, at around the same time that US Senate Select Intelligence Committee co-chair Mark Warner was demanding more government control over Reddit on the grounds that it was a potential vehicle for Russian Propaganda.[2]
Censorship
- Full article: Reddit/Censorship
- Full article: Reddit/Censorship
Reddit, to quote one subscriber "has been compromised for a very long time".[3] It is subject to various forms of censorship.[4] and the official rules for how the site works are not followed with posts of deep political relevance.[5] In 2019, Reddit was attempting to remove any mention of Project Veritas. Users report automated methods to flag mentions of it and suspending of any users who tried to post about it.[6]
Alternatives
Readers seeking a Reddit style website with a community more receptive to the topics of discussion on this website may be interested in Saidit.
After the management ruled that Pizzagate was an unacceptable topic for discussion[citation needed], the Reddit group moved to Voat to continue their discussion.
Employee on Wikispooks
Employee | Job | Appointed | Description |
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Jessica Ashooh | Director of Policy | 2017 | Ramped up Reddit censorship |
A document sourced from Reddit
Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:How Reddit Was Destroyed | webpage | Reddit/Censorship | 25 March 2015 | 'Shark Shank' | An informative summary of changes made to how Reddit works to facilitate its use as a means of disseminating propaganda and frustrate its use as a forum for uncensored self-expression. |
References
- ↑ http://archive.is/OIcqX
- ↑ https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/08/us-uk-military-intelligence-apparatus-destroy-jeremy-corbyn/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/32km41/you_dont_end_up_here_at_rconspiracy_if_you_didnt/?ref=search_posts
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/22yewf/i_have_identified_a_list_of_keywords_that_are/
- ↑ Document:How_Reddit_Was_Destroyed
- ↑ https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/06/17/reddit-suspends-users-who-post-project-veritas-videos