For the people who think they're publicly announcing this, look at the article's date in the screenshot: August 8th, 2024

You all seriously need to verify everything you see on here, and everywhere. Pretend you're looking at a CNN article when you see anything involving current events, because the information war is happening everywhere.

Though to be fair, places like China are undeniably creating millions of alt accounts on every social network to sway public opinion, and that, along with clickfarms, and along with garbage trending sections/algorithmic promotion of garbage ideas, and (shadow)banning everyone who disagrees strongly enough, make it relatively unnecessary for Reddit to also do this. It's far more demoralizing for us the way things currently work.

For the people who think they're publicly announcing this, look at the article's date in the screenshot: August 8th, 2024

You all seriously need to verify everything you see on here, and everywhere. Pretend you're looking at a CNN article when you see anything involving current events, because the information war is happening everywhere.

Though to be fair, places like China are undeniably creating 1000s of alt accounts on every social network to sway public opinion, and that, along with clickfarms, and along with garbage trending sections/algorithmic promotion of garbage ideas, and (shadow)banning everyone who disagrees strongly enough, make it relatively unnecessary for Reddit to also do this. It's far more demoralizing for us the way things currently work.