It appears that right-wing news websites funded by Russia’s Internet Research Agency have been aggressively targeting Reddit’s largest pro-Trump subreddit, /r/The_Donald, for over a year.
In a viral thread posted to /r/FuckTheAltRight last week, a user named DivestTrump laid out a staggering list of suspicious political content coming from a handful of domains. As Facebook and Twitter have become more active this year in tackling fake news, bots, and political bad actors, it has left Reddit as one of the few places where people are freely sharing links online. /r/The_Donald currently has over 600,000 subscribers and still acts as the pro-Trump world’s central hub for memes, talking points, and conspiracy theories.
The bulk of the investigation that was posted to /r/FuckTheAltRight focused on two suspicious domains: brutalist.press and usareally.com. Both domains were registered in Russia, both sites contain linguistic errors common with other Russia-affiliated sites, and both heavily targeted /r/The_Donald. Based on job listings posted online, brutalist.press appears to have been created in St. Petersburg in 2016. And usareally.com is owned by a member of a civil society institution called the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
The thread posted to /r/FuckTheAltRight was deleted and archived several hours after it was posted. It appears DivestTrump deleted his account after posting, which has only added to conspiracy theories from users about how Reddit might be dealing with allegations of Russian meddling on its most controversial subreddit. DivestTrump explained why he deleted his account in a subsequent post, writing, "I'm not interested in spending my time getting doxxed, death threats, brigades, witch hunts and general reddit vitriol for no good reason."
A spokesperson for Reddit told BuzzFeed News that the company had been in the final stages of investigating the domains listed in DivestTrump’s post when the thread was posted.
"We are continuing our investigation into suspicious content on Reddit and have taken action against several domains that break our site-wide policies," the spokesperson said. "We have dedicated teams that enforce our site-wide policies, proactively go after bad actors on the site, and create engineering solutions to prevent them in the future." buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/reddits-largest-pro-trump-subreddit-appears-to-have-been
They always try to bring back this "muh russia" excuse every year for being fucking pathetic failures and always back peddle after a couple months when it routinely gets disproven and shown that they're just a shit political party with a trash candidate and failure political ideology for losers.
Luis Price
I'm on there every fucking day don't see any Russian propaganda see at all you shills are desperate arent ya could it be your fake rape claims arent going your way
Christian Bell
So Russian hackers targetted a forum full of Tump supporters, to encourage them to vote for Trump?
All you have to do is post anything that doesn't criticize russia on reddit and you will get called a russian agent or a bot by somebody, usually an israeli hasbara employee.
Angel Cruz
Well that's fucking retarded. Who wrote th Why would you even link that here?
Chase Cruz
Wait. So are israel bots targetting 8ch because kikewater is posted as news? Also; (((buzzfeed)))
Isaiah Allen
Zig Forums is Russian propaganda. What in the hell, might I ask, are you doing here?
Zachary Clark
what has Zig Forums come to
Nicholas Turner
buzz feed is absolutely fake news
Michael Rivera
yup, because the admin/mods looked into months ago most of the "Russian" posts happened outside that sub
You faggots are Dale Gribble levels of retarded. Seeing conspiracies where none exist while missing the obvious ones that everyone else can plainly see.
