Right wingers encouraging others to buy upvotes and downvotes on Reddit to push right-wing politics and suppress their opposition.

  • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    31·
    3 months ago

    Genius, how has no one thought of that before? After all, that’s how presidents are elected, by comment upvotes on a Jordan Peterson Meme Subreddit

  • emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    “if we want Trump to win this war we need to take the fight to Reddit” is a pretty incredible line

    And I assume a decent “Nigerian prince” style filter

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    We have a damn good business model here folks. All we need to do is sandbox the idiots so that they pay to see what they want to see and only they see it.

    • OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      And then proceed to fill these echo chambers with [insert local conservative] has betrayed Trump and (by extension) the country!

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
        17·
        3 months ago

        And nazis get a pass bc they drive engagement, so it’s all good for pigboy huffman. Or at least until the media sees it

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        2·
        3 months ago

        It’s very hard for them to do so, they’ll usually do it for people with multiple accounts in the same browser doing it, but they don’t bother with any of the bigger methods. Doesn’t make them look as good and powerful to normies.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      8·
      3 months ago

      That’s how it’s supposed to be, but anyone actually aware of how Reddit does things knows that they’re actually laughably bad at enforcing their rules. They only do it to look good and convince normies that it’s hard and that they’ll get caught (I don’t know why, seems like preaching to the choir, since normies aren’t interested in this shit but whatever).

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      yeah but for that the corporate dogs that enforce those rules have to feel like enforcing the rules

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      4·
      3 months ago

      Lemmy isn’t impervious to vote manipulation either unfortunately, I encountered someone in a thread earlier who was getting botted, one downvote for every upvote in lock-step with each other. Good news is that Lemmy admins will squish them if you report sussy voting behavior.