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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

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schnitzelstoat · 1790685238 · focus · HN ↗
It seems like the astroturfing accounts are managed (perhaps by humans, perhaps by advanced AI) for quite a while before being used. So they won't look like new or 'thin' accounts and will have reasonable looking posts across different subreddits.
We are in the age of the replicant now.

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