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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

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reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

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In its early days, reddit was built on lies. Sure, lots of code, but some lies.

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coming from a disinformation campaign

It wouldn’t be surprising:
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  Even the user names are formatted in a similar fashion.
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    That’s reddit’s auto-generated username format. Most bots use those.

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