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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All these President Trump hate subs are using something to heavily inflate their votes. Reddit admins have to know about it. Locked post with 14 comments has 60,000 upvotes. Ok.
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> All these President Trump hate subs are using something to heavily inflate their votes. Probably it is the admins they are using.
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I agree, yesterday it was on the Front page with over 20,000 up votes and 2 comments total. The thread was locked and comments were deleted. But I’ve seen that sub randomly have thousands of upvotes despite having very little subscribers.
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Look through /r/RedditCensors for my thread containing screenshots of their Discord, which they use to vote-brigade their own posts.
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Be silent faggot. This isn't yet another platform for your psychopathic attention-seeking.
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r/MarchAgainstTrump is a ShareBlue project, like r/EnoughTrumpSpam, r/EnoughSandersSpam, r/politics, etc.—so I wouldn't be surprised to learn r/political_tweets is just another head to the Hydra
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R/political tweets was made by the former MAT mods (Barawoo3) right after MAT was shut down. It is 100% a shill-controlled sub.
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They use their Discord to organize targeted upvoting, just like MAT did.
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we already know reddit is fake
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The sub literally is March against Trump 2.0, and it is very obviously being upbotted.