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Сеть Reddit имеет не так много постоянных пользователей, как Facebook или Twitter, но эти пользователи активные. Большинство (70%) из них пользуются сайтом для того, чтобы узнавать новости.



Во время выборов 2016 канал r/The_Donald превратился в центральное место для фанатов Трампа из числа alt-right троллей, генерирующих мемы и теории заговора.



Печальной стала история 33-летнего Лэйна Дэвиса из Сиэттла, убившего своего отца.

Lane Davis, who went by the username Seattle4Truth, was a regular on r/The_Donald, sometimes posting conspiracy theories several times a day. Davis, also a former intern of Milo Yiannopoulos, killed his father last July after accusing his father of being a pedophile, according to his mother in a harrowing 9-1-1 call.
“He’s mad about something on the internet about leftist pedophiles and he thinks we’re leftist and he’s calling us pedophiles. And I don’t know what all,” Davis’ mother Catherine told the operator.
“He just lives on the internet and he gets really worked up about everything that’s going on. He needs an intervention of some kind here.”
Minutes later, Davis stabbed his father, killing him.
Davis later told detectives the fight started when he asked his father “whether toddlers could consent to sex or not.” Davis said his father called him a Nazi and a racist.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-rises-up-against-ceo-for-hiding-russian-trolls



Следует ли удивляться тому, что сообщество было успешно инфильтровано российскими троллями? Влиятельный тролль TEN_GOP в 2016-2017 лично разместил в Reddit 1575 постов. Наиболее популярным из постов троллей, разоблаченных в Твиттере, оказался пост "CNN Immediately Ends the Interview When Leading Democrat Reveals The CIA Has No Evidence Of Trump/Russia Collusion" (Имелось в виду интервью Дайэн Файнстайн 4 мая 2017, в котором на вопрос "Do you have evidence that there was in fact collusion between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign?" она ответила "Not at this time.") Этот пост питерского тролля pamela_moore13 набрал почти 16 тысяч голосов.
https://www.reddit.com/user/f_k_a_g_n/comments/7eest1/reddit_submissions_linking_to_twitterrussian/

Дополнительная информация об инфильтрации Reddit и Tumblr появилась из утечки внутренних документов питерской фабрики троллей.

A leak of internal data from the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency discovered by The Daily Beast serves as the first confirmation that the Russian troll farm deployed its online agitators on Reddit as part of its campaign to interfere in American politics.
The leak also reveals 21 Tumblr accounts, including login credentials, run by the Internet Research Agency (IRA). The listing for the leak offers “American proxies” for Reddit and viral meme site 9Gag.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-used-reddit-and-tumblr-to-troll-the-2016-election



Наконец глава компании Reddit, 34-летний Стив Хаффман, был вынужден откликнуться:

I believe the biggest risk we face as Americans is our own ability to discern reality from nonsense, and this is a burden we all bear. I wish there was a solution as simple as banning all propaganda, but it’s not that easy. Between truth and fiction are a thousand shades of grey. It’s up to all of us—Redditors, citizens, journalists—to work through these issues. It’s somewhat ironic, but I actually believe what we’re going through right now will actually reinvigorate Americans to be more vigilant, hold ourselves to higher standards of discourse, and fight back against propaganda, whether foreign or not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/827zqc/in_response_to_recent_reports_about_the_integrity/

Хаффман отказался банить r/The_Donald, предложив посмотреть, как этот канал зачахнет сам собой. Не всем юзерам такой ответ понравился.

Multiple Redditors in the comments section of Huffman’s post pointed out that not only had r/The_Donald been infiltrated by Russian trolls (many argued that it was little more than a front) but also that the subreddit’s continued existence was a sign that the platform wasn’t taking Russian propaganda seriously at all.
Huffman addressed this criticism by responding in comments: “Banning them [users on r/The_Donald] probably won't accomplish what you want. However, letting them fall apart from their own dysfunction probably will. Their engagement is shrinking over time, and that's much more powerful than shutting them down outright” (link original). Redditors responded by downvoting Huffman’s comment a record-breaking 6,000 times.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/07/Russian-propaganda-is-rampant-on-Reddit-Heres-why-that-matters/219576

Хаффман также пообещал сотрудничество с расследованиями Конгресса. Однако, как выясняется, Reddit dо сих пор не передал в Конгресс никакой информации.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-reddit-says-its-cooperating-with-russia-investigations-theyve-handed-over-zero-documents