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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

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  1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
    > The practical check is the one the data endorses: when a knife recommendation comes from an account you do not recognize, click through and see whether it has ever named a different brand.

    This isn't even most of the times possible, since both humans and bot alike on Reddit now hides their comment/submission history, so it just shows a blank page.

    No, I think it's best to just default to assuming everyone is a bot, so to say, and read everything critically regardless of what the source may be.

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