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.
No. I’m using Lemmy.
Besides that, who cares. I’m using Lemmy.
There is plenty of coordinated inauthentic behavior here. You’ll notice it when the first few comments of every post somewhere like /c/politics consistently reinforce the “talking point of the month” to sow division among groups not aligned with Russian success.
I call it getting the heebs. Seeing a weird turn of phrase will set it off for me. This is my first time experiencing it from a leftist slant.
Used to watch the Russians clock in and go to work on TheDonald back in the day. They were really obvious.
The AstroTurf here is pretty nice, smells so much like grass you about can’t smell the bullshit. Better than Reddit, or Digg, or Slashdot, for now.
Maybe it’s time to take a trip down the Mother Road and try Usenet for actual discussion.
Uh, maybe don’t call it that.
I’m guessing they meant this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heebie-jeebies
Correct. US southern English.
You have this phrase all up the East coast into Canada fyi
If it goes that far, it’s probably all over the US.
As the other commenter noted, heebie jeebies. In the US South it has been rounded off to “the heebs.” No racial connotation. Similar to being spooked or apprehensive without a known danger. Slang term. Never thought about it being mistaken.
Another slang term I use that is similar and is easily mistaken is, “bad juju.” It means bad magic, bad luck, or a curse. One day, when I build my dream car, I want it on a vanity plate.
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I just replied to one not a half hour ago!
When I first joined Lemmy over a year ago after the Reddit API changes, I unknowingly joined a server that had a large right wing community. So I’ve been seeing a bunch of that stuff on Lemmy for a while now
i see alot of conservative ones pop up, and any lemmy.ml post is also disengenious and leans heavily to the right.
I’m confused. I thought .ml were left, like far far extreme left.
tankies are left in exactly the same way North Korea is democratic
They are, people here just aren’t capable of imagining anyone to the left of Elizabeth Warren
Not sure about ‘far far extreme’, but firmly left. The front page speaks for itself.
It’s a big site where left-ish content is still reasonably popular. It may be a commercial shithole, but it’s still better than some other popular sites at bringing visibility to anti-nazi pushback (for now at least).
Lemmy eat Snoo’s face…
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.
Reddit didn’t start pushing it, it just stopped fighting it.
They lost a lot of human users and moderators over the last few years (during the API changes, for example) and their place was filled with “power mods” who run multiple large subreddits.
The moderator:user ratio has gone way down and so the people who game social media to push their messaging (nation states interested in disrupting the US) are essentially unchecked.
Now, instead of dumb bots that just copy/paste comments we have LLM-enabled ‘users’ (or even entire subreddits) that only exist to amplify these messages and manipulate the karma system to suppress opposition.
You don’t need to be a moderator if you can just use your network of hundreds of thousands of bots to downvote people out of the conversation or to boost articles to the front page.
And yet as short staffed as they are, these mods always manage to suppress pro Luigi and anti musk content
Remember the government saying that they were going to treat anti-musk vandalism as terrorism?
They’re not doing that by issuing press releases.
They’re looking for “terrorists” on social media and their subpoenas to social media sites let the site know the kind of content that the government is labeling terrorism and then the site starts banning that content.
Meanwhile they’re using that terrorism declaration to do things like charge protesters with crimes. For the ones who are on visas (like students, professors, etc) they are using those crimes as an excuse to revoke their visas and deport them.
Reddit is censoring things that are being pursued by law enforcement because their is no safe harbor laws that protect sites from things the government declares as illegal.
Reddit censorship is reflecting federal law enforcement priorities.
I would be less worried about deleted posts and more worried about who’s houses are being raided due to “terrorism” charges because they’re too vocal about healthcare reform or protested in the vicinity of property damage to Musk properties
Easier when admins do it for them
its easy when they have AI/bot to filter out that, dont need much people to monitor those comments.
AI has been banning people left and right as of recently.
from what ive gathered, its 92 mods controlling over 500+subs, i think these are the powermods. and additionally some of these are admins themselves? or mods that are in cahoots with reddit admins.
I just wish there was some way to educate the Redditors on this. Let them know what their Admins allow, and what they support. But I’m pretty sure if you just make a post on Reddit saying something like “Reddit is bad go somewhere else” it will be removed.
For the average person, the effort that it would require far outweighs any morality issues. Even if they knew the whole story.
We should still educate people, but that isn’t going to move the needle by itself.
questioning any reddit habits will get removed, if your not a mod yourself.
The same thing happened to TikTok on inauguration day
The rich are all currently working together to transition the US to a dictatorship ran by an oligarchy.
They are taking over all social media they can buy and trying to control the narrative through chatbots.
It’s every major platform. Even Substack is just so ridiculous at this point. Idk if it’s even necessarily Russians, but just the ability of wealthy people to buy algorithm control and push an agenda.
I tried to use Substack for a min but just kept getting frustrated with the inability to sort feed content of any accounts unless you follow them already. Like something would happen and I would want to discuss it with a large group of people and learn information while it’s still relevant, but there’s no way to do that.
For some reason I kept seeing the same messaging over and over pushed on my feed trying to convince me that Pete Buttigeg is somehow the same as AOC or Bernie Sanders (which logic should tell you wtf no he’s not) then yesterday I see the same account announcing he’s gearing up to run for 2028 and suddenly it all made sense. Typical establishment bullshit but modernized for the Broligarchy takeover.
Paying for social media algorithm control like advertising so that what people get to experience is nothing social, just media pushing a wealthy agenda but tweaked to their individual feed.
Canadian elections coming up, shareholders of Reddit probably have a stake in conservative politics… Yeah, current social media is gross.
No, this time it’s more.
They have the country, now the concern is to keep it, and preferably steer the US further into following conservative leadership, especially when it comes to an aggressive foreign policy to alienate allies.
Basically the tactic worked so well , they’re doubling down and making it their core strategy moving forward.
The Romanian election too
Reddit has been protecting russian bot farms for almost a decade now.
they pretend to a sweep on occasion, only to have them come back even worst than before. how do we know? we know political posts suddenly becomes super quiet of any “both sides ranting” temporarily. and resemble more like lemmy posts of politics.
and now Israel has a vested interest with reddit, because of the gaza conflict.
No, I haven’t. Because I no longer go on Reddit.
This is the way.
When you ban sensible discussion you’re left with utter nonsense
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.
War on Russia will never make you happy.
Seeing the Russians run headlong into the Ukrainian meat grinder makes me very happy lol
Seeing a UA drone drop a grenade on a Russian soldier that was busy giving another Russian soldier a blowjob instead of keeping watch…that shit made my week
Russia losing naval battles against a country with no navy
That giant tank convoy that just kinda…got stuck. And then blew up.
Oh oh oh and when Pringles almost did a coup, that shit made my MONTH
When your media feed is only Ukrainian war porn, you will miss all of the territorial loss taking place, and all of the much higher Ukrainian attritition. Hate and fantasies of diminishing Russia, means “to the last Ukrainian” defeat, just so you clearly know your moral responsibilities and actual level of commitment for Ukrainian prosperity.
I’m committed to harming Russia, and the Ukraine war is fucking GREAT for that
Russia could end it all by just leaving Ukraine and going the fuck home, but until they do, I’ll enjoy them battering themselves to pieces
Failure in diminishing Russia, should be a moment to realize stopping your sacrifices (even if it is just debt money and inflation) as the best path. Russian military production growth exceeds the losses they are suffering. That massive increase in military power will be used to convince imbecile hateful losers such as yourself, to sacrifice all social and useful economic prosperity to compete with Russia’s military production. You are diminishing yourself with your casual hatred, vs united Russian determination to repel demonic aggression supported by your casual hatred.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of all the crying Russian widows
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.
🤣
Oopsie daisy
Because it’s painfully obvious to the point that Russia has literally explicitly admitted to it.
Still being on Reddit in 2025 has turned into a real leopards eating my face situation.
Reddit will ban anything and everything except right wing bullshit.
you just noticed? it has been there for a while, its infested almost all the subs, that talk about politics or ukraine, or any country.
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)
If by recent you mean 5-6 years then yes
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 i had several of my 5+ get a sitewide banned, but it only gave the “multiple violations of several accounts, but not the actual incident of the ban itself” you can assume its ban evasion, but they dint ban you for that, just a very vague AI message and ban. even if you did ban evade you usually get a message of “the previous account you are attempting to evade on this account”. also i believe vaguness is intentional so it gives reddit legitamcy.
ALso what triggered all those ban for many people, at least for my i believe when i was temp banned from r/technology for report abused i got an instant ban on all my throwaways and old accts, plus a backup main account i created last year.
