I am, or at least I was, addicted to browsing new on r/conspiracy. Most of it was junk but I'd always find some good content.
For the past month or so every single post is junk. No good content to be found there anymore. My theory is that the bots that have been relentlessly brigading the sub have driven away all the quality posters.
All good things must come to an end but I'm sad that we are losing one of the few places we could find news that counters the mainstream narrative.
I realized something was seriously amiss with the sub when my posts regarding the spikes in cases and deaths following the rollout of vaccines in various SE Asian countries like Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam were removed within seconds.
I posted images screencapped from Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 dashboard like this one:
https://i.imgur.com/kgCEas3.png
in June last year and reveddit showed me that they were removed my mod or automod, but it was clearly an automod.
So why would r/conspiracy have an automod that knew to remove images drawn from JH CSSE dashboard? I have to guess that that data was particularly damning to the COVID narrative and reddit admins had set up some kind of filter.
Reddit is fake.