Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?
To me it almost seems like reddit has started pushing it.
No. You’re seeing what the news looks like without USAID funding propaganda to drown out the truth. A majority of media outlets in Ukraine were taking money from them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/07/ukraine-russia-independent-media-trump-usaid/
Either give it a rest or take that shit back to .ml where it’s tolerated.
Lol “the truth”
You believe these media companies were not taking money from USAID?
Hey OP, I found another one
This reminds me of when the media & government dropped the Iraq wmd claims, and admitted they’d fabricated the whole thing. Even when they stopped pushing the lie and confessed the weapons never existed, so many people invested in the hoax took a long while to accept the truth.
You’ll catch up.
Ah yes. Prove a ludicrous statement by talking about an unrelated one, classic whataboutism. Look, either you’re aim is to spread propaganda or, more likely, you’ve swollowed enough yourself and totally lost the plot.
No. Im just a leftist. I’m used to knowing things too early. You’ll catch up eventually, and then pretend you knew the truth the whole time. I know how this goes.
A leftist ranting about the evils of USAID.
lmao, okay sweetie. That’s nice. 😂
The acronym is an intentional misnomer to mislead people about their mission, and they’ve spent a lot of money to craft their image. It’s understandable to mistakenly believe it’s focused on aid.
Peddle your BS to someone more gullible.
I only frequent one closed group on Reddit - the only reason I still have my account. I gather this group to be quite safe. The main page, though, is a mess, USNazis and Russians way to frequent.
Still being on Reddit in 2025 has turned into a real leopards eating my face situation.
Canadian elections coming up, shareholders of Reddit probably have a stake in conservative politics… Yeah, current social media is gross.
The Romanian election too
No, this time it’s more.
They have the country, now the concern is to keep it, and preferably steer the US further into following conservative leadership, especially when it comes to an aggressive foreign policy to alienate allies.
Basically the tactic worked so well , they’re doubling down and making it their core strategy moving forward.
No, I haven’t. Because I no longer go on Reddit.
This is the way.
I had to leave about a year ago because of this.
At the risk of going against the flow here…no?
People keep talking about how Reddit is going hard fascist…but half the posts on /r/all are about Trump being a rapist, or celebrating CyberTruck arson, or Luigi memes, etc.
I deleted my Reddit account during the third-party app bullshit and exclusively view it from the old site or OpenArtemis, so I’m not exactly going to defend them, but it isn’t nearly as bad as I’ve been seeing here.
its not because of the anti-trump posts, but its most the fact that resemble what MSMs has been doing, reporting everything trump does give him free press and legitimacy to the gop. additionally alot of comments get removed in those same posts for very little reason too. and also adding as adistraction from the actual things they couldve been posting. its called sanewashing. also some posters have been traced back to right wing bots and trolls too. too add, subs you never thought would see on the fornt page, such as conservative have become a constant prescence, also ragebaiting posts too.
Yeah, when I’ve visited there has been very small amounts of far right posts, maybe because of the algo?
i believe its what the MSMs, did sanewashing his every move, so he looks more legitamcy and bolsters his support.
It’s everywhere. I’m guessing they have a lot extra free money to spend on propaganda now that they allies with the US.
I don’t buy the whole Russia thing because it takes the burden of guilt off of the admin and makes them look like pawns. No, the admin would be this way regardless of Russia. The Russia connection is a symptom of MAGA, not the cause.
This is naive. Russia has been waging psychological warfare on us for literally decades. They are open about this. They’ve written books about it. It is LITERALLY Russian military doctrine.
I am NOT advocating for marching on Moscow. But to ignore the psychological warfare that was amplified by, yes willing conspirators which does indicate we DO have a root problem here too, is to ignore the circumstances that brought us here.
We are only here because of the combination of old-school crazies in the Heritage Foundation controlling Fox News/trad. media and our 4chan billionaires pushing all sorts of propaganda from the depths of the internet & 4chan, which is pretty much all Russian/chinese/iranian propaganda aimed at destabilizing trust within the west.
Sure people are stupid and like conspiracies — but the conspiracy sphere is EXACTLY a target of Russian propaganda because the user base already distrusts the government and they’re a user base that’s willing to push their beliefs onto others if you can convince them… see QANON. Qanon has deep ties to both Russia AND to the tech bros, namely Thiel and Musk.
This is only possible because of the MARRIAGE OF THESE IDEAS. They are equally to blame. We are at war with Russia as much as we are at war with our own traitorous billionaires.
I’m one week reddit free after 2 bans. I honestly don’t miss it. Recently it’s been all right-wing propaganda and conspiracies, getting banned for innocuous things, and general hate towards other users. That platform is dying fast. Here’s to Lemmy supremacy! 🥂
Maybe also has something to do with the uptick of banning left leaning people talking about the damage Trump and Musk are doing? There have been a TON of people here saying their 10+ year old accounts have been banned.
WTF is Reddit?
Seriously though get off that site, it’s not good for you.
They’re getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff
this is one part, but i think its mostly because of ad revenue, right wing content drives traffic to the site, it works for Youtube/facebook.
Crazy that that’s the case considering how bad it tends to be for advertisers. But I don’t doubt that’s involved too. Especially when the cultural focus of the country now is to rid itself of all forms of equity
Yeah, I don’t think it’s an uptick of Russians and right wingers so much as a downtick in sane and leftist comments.
yup, also significant astroturfing from right wing shills.
I’m just seeing a lot of sanitation of reddit. Must be making it advertiser friendly or kissing up to the admin.
Lately?
My sentiments exactly. Been an increasing problem over there since 2016 that I noticed but I’m sure there was this bullshittery there before and I just wasn’t in the subreddits where it festered.
