Not surprising in the least. The author’s research methodology is a bit clunky, but you don’t need an LLM to tell you that the content on r/Canada is extremely conservative and that a lot of it feels inorganic. It’s self-evident.
Basically every subreddit on the front page is botted hard with political posts pushing far-right content.
I used Reddit when it was a tiny backwater site (Digg was the place to be, everyone knew that).
Sure, the comments could get a bit out of hand but nothing on this level. This is industrial levels of bad faith trolls and bots manipulating the conversations so only the most outrageous takes are visible.
It’s a joke to make fun of how moderation heavy r/conservative is. That kind of social media manipulation seems quaint now. That’s one just a person, or a few people trying to engineer a filter bubble.
The operation(s) taking over social media are huge numbers of people augmented with vote manipulation bots and LLMs so that they dominate the algorithms with their brand of content and so they get to influence what millions of people read all day and thus what and how they think.
Canada it’s driving a specific message, in GCJ it’ll have a different topic but the same tactics.
Not surprising in the least. The author’s research methodology is a bit clunky, but you don’t need an LLM to tell you that the content on r/Canada is extremely conservative and that a lot of it feels inorganic. It’s self-evident.
Basically every subreddit on the front page is botted hard with political posts pushing far-right content.
I used Reddit when it was a tiny backwater site (Digg was the place to be, everyone knew that).
Sure, the comments could get a bit out of hand but nothing on this level. This is industrial levels of bad faith trolls and bots manipulating the conversations so only the most outrageous takes are visible.
It’s a joke to make fun of how moderation heavy r/conservative is. That kind of social media manipulation seems quaint now. That’s one just a person, or a few people trying to engineer a filter bubble.
The operation(s) taking over social media are huge numbers of people augmented with vote manipulation bots and LLMs so that they dominate the algorithms with their brand of content and so they get to influence what millions of people read all day and thus what and how they think.
Canada it’s driving a specific message, in GCJ it’ll have a different topic but the same tactics.