Investigate r/political_tweets for usage of vote manipulation
216 07 Jul 2017 12:53 by u/Arman_Karamanokian
This little sub has managed to quadruple itself in the last few weeks, and now there's posts being pushed up to the FP which are extremely low-effort. I've done some preliminary investigating, and there's a definite trend of suspicious behaviour on the subreddit. This includes posts which have nothing to do with the subject matter, and the fact that none of the posts (other then the top two) get any substantial number of upvotes. I believe there might be a link between the vote-manipulating techniques used here and the techniques used by r/MarchAgainstTrump, but I don't have the time to monitor the upvotes and downvotes on every post.
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