Reddit bans 944 accounts with suspected links to Russian troll farm

Reddit bans 944 accounts with suspected links to Russian troll farm
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reddit-bans-944-accounts-suspected-links-russian-troll/story?id=54379601

Reddit has banned 944 accounts, suspected to be of Russian origin, for spreading propaganda and misinformation on its platform.

In a blog post, the company announced Tuesday that these accounts have suspicious characteristics that suggest they originate from the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA).

The IRA is the Russian “troll farm” based in St. Petersburg that the FBI and the Robert Mueller investigation charges with spreading misinformation and propaganda aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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The most interactive account with a karma score of 99,493 spread multiple pieces of anti-Hillary Clinton content, including posts calling for Clinton to be imprisoned and an image depicting Trump as a knight in gold-plated armor impaling Clinton’s head with his sword. Many of the active accounts made racist posts and posted pro-gun messages but there were also some banned accounts that posted mostly Black Lives Matter material.



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See also:

NBC: Russia-linked account pushed fake Hillary Clinton sex video
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210478140