[dusing]

Not to mention the incredibly fake content that gets heaps of upvotes and attention. Which encourages the next fake to one up and so on.

[YATA0]

Considering the efforts troll farms put in during the previous election cycles on reddit, I wonder if what we're seeing in places like /r/antiwork is more or less the same. Subversion by nation-state troll farms fomenting intergenerational strife.

[idontwantthis]

I think it’s more that they are jumping on the zeitgeist subreddit for Karma now to legitimize their political posts during the election.

[YATA0]

That's exactly what the Russian troll farms fomented. They were the ones who drove what the zeitgeist was.

[2pEXgD0fZ5cF]

That is the state of every single large subreddit that remotely ties into personal experiences/stories though.

[SpicyLemonZest]

It is, and I think it’s a general problem that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. A lot of people, and I should be clear that I include myself, are consuming an endless stream of fake stories that validate their preconceptions and biases. It’s not healthy and very possibly dangerous.