Since at least 2014 the US DoD has been manipulating Reddit via a putative Pentagon-controlled troll farm at Eglin AFB. Evidence of this was revealed when for fun Reddit released user numbers by city, and Eglin AFB turned out to have the highest user/population ratio in the world. Not sus at all.
I believe they've been at it since Collateral Murder was released and Reddit recoiled in horror at the notion that US soldiers were just casually committing horrendous war crimes. The DoD had to do something so they swooped in with an army of trolls to do damage control. Hearts and minds and all that.
Later in 2016, when Reddit went bananas for Bernie Sanders, and the DNC hired their own trolls (David Brock's CTR, later called Shareblue) to help sink his campaign, I think it became evident to the spookverse that Reddit could be an extremely effective consent factory.
I suppose it took a little time or cagjoling but eventually Reddit's bosses agreed to create a new position (director of policy) and hire Ashooh to fill it.
Since at least 2014 the US DoD has been manipulating Reddit via a putative Pentagon-controlled troll farm at Eglin AFB. Evidence of this was revealed when for fun Reddit released user numbers by city, and Eglin AFB turned out to have the highest user/population ratio in the world. Not sus at all.
I believe they've been at it since Collateral Murder was released and Reddit recoiled in horror at the notion that US soldiers were just casually committing horrendous war crimes. The DoD had to do something so they swooped in with an army of trolls to do damage control. Hearts and minds and all that.
Later in 2016, when Reddit went bananas for Bernie Sanders, and the DNC hired their own trolls (David Brock's CTR, later called Shareblue) to help sink his campaign, I think it became evident to the spookverse that Reddit could be an extremely effective consent factory.
I suppose it took a little time or cagjoling but eventually Reddit's bosses agreed to create a new position (director of policy) and hire Ashooh to fill it.
Gosh but that data would be neat to see. We need a Reddit whistleblower to leak it!