[pen2l]

Reddit is one of the most potent places where opinion-shaping has been happening. I've been getting ads for Reddit everywhere recently (even thought I've been a reddit user for about 20 years).

r/worldnews is pretty tightly controlled, it's a default subreddit meaning 50+ million people see the posts submitted in this subreddit, and most critically, the ensuing conversation in comments which goes only in one direction. Frankly I'm impressed this all was pulled off so seamlessly.

[adhamsalama]

That sub is pretty much controlled by Zionist. If you criticize Israel in any way shape or form, you'll get a permanent ban.

[albulab]

"controlled by zionists" Interestingly, every place Qatar doesn't pour billions into spreading propaganda sewage suddenly becomes "controlled by Zionists."

[bjourne]

Try writing a comment alleging that Israel is an apartheid state and see how long it stays up.

[bhouston]

This post from today on r/worldnews was hilarious -- all the top comments where deleted (and their authors probably permanently banned) because they didn't hold the party line:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1nc65sx/israel_i...

[jimbohn]

And a lot of lead-generating subreddits are gatekept by admins/mods, sometimes for money. Also, there are russians offering services to promote (spam upvotes and fake comments) your product, and for some of our competitors it's very obvious when that happens, somehow reddit doesn't notice. Same about twitter, somehow super tight checks for normal users while some spam is somehow unfiltered. Social media is a destructive force.