I have uncovered a large number of accounts engaged in signal boosting various political messages on Reddit. I am but one lonely pede and am in need of help to gather information on them.
Here is my current list, it grows by the minute as I research: https://pastebin.com/Ary9PDsc
All accounts have no verified email. Many are created within the past month, most within the past week. They like to start by posting a comment in r/memes or to self. The comments are often reused/repeated. Some of the self posts are in Russian, some comments are defending China.
Who can help me with this? Groups/people?
Nice job gathering that data. Pretty clearly they have it automated for sure, so there's some script running bot. In the scraped list, notice the recurring name data format: string followed by 3 or 4 digits, commonly having a 1 and a 7.
It seems like this is run by a nation-state.
I wish Reddit had some AI that looks at new accounts, compares content with other new accounts, and if it finds exact duplication, it could block the content.
Now notice our Available_Union_1603's data format...
Maybe .win here could have a policy allowing new accounts to 'ripen and age' a bit before they get to leave posts. Perhaps that could cut down accounts made specifically to troll other people's posts.
My thanks to you mods for being diligent and active. It really helps keep the quality up here.
Reddit's only job is to push communist propaganda into the heads of the world's stupidest people.