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by zeagle 740 days ago
Shame and fucked up, although everyone is doing it. The Canadian government is currently having a big kerfuffle about foreign influence (1) and seems like the USA conveniently blames all domestic political strife on such interference. The obvious ethics of this aside, it's a good reminder that anything geopolitical is an active propaganda war these days. I notice it less on HN but honestly can't even read Reddit anymore there days because of this re: other current events.

1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-trudea...

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Reddit employed NATO employees at high level position. Almost all of the main subreddits are active propaganda channels. I am constantly bewildered at the amount of Zelensky/NATO photos on innocuous subreddits like damnthatsinteresting or pics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/wdrirf/reddit_is...

It's outright depressing even casually scrolling through reddit these days with blatant ads and propaganda smothering you.

Depends on the subreddit though.