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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

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[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 72 points 8 months ago

And a significant part of the remainder are repost bots recycling old popular posts and comments in order to farm karma, which will eventually be sold to OnlyFans spammers, political ops, and corporate shills.

[-] RedditReject@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'll see the same post on 2 or 3 subs and it will just be something I saw a year or more ago.

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