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I don’t believe that botnet activity has been limited to one side, based on how reddit has looked this last week.

Example of suspicious postings:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/7engpr/image_reddi...

How are those suspicious? It's an issue redditors care a lot about. A lot of those posts were done by moderators in their respective communities and don't appear to be copied and pasted content. It looks from the screengrab like you upvoted them too...

Yeah. Mass conformance is never suspicious.

Not my screengrab.

That is a post in frisson where someone is posting a pic that supposedly will generate frisson. There is clearly a campaign to post subreddit themed references to the topic.

The vote counts seem aberrant to me as well.

Hack'tivism is just like antifa.

When the right does it (with parsimony), it's the embodiment of Evil. When the left does it (on an industrial scale), it's virtuous.

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