Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign

Is, has been, is designed to, whole purpose is, etc... definitely not "may"...

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Oh no, sounds like I should avoid this reddit you speak of. Any suggestions for alternatives?

Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it's also worth noting that Reddit's policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I'd assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.

reddit being manipulated by information campaigns!?

Whelp. It appears I am a robot. I guess I don't get to find out what my fellow boys are up to. smh.

(Edit).. apparently I can't even spell "bots" correctly. I'm failing all the tests today.

Palantir is the absolute scum of the information world. Tech with promise, but used in the worst kind of ways.

It's really, really obvious, too. I don't have a reddit account anymore, but I occasionally scroll through popular, and r/world is such blatant propaganda that it makes r/conservative look reasonable. Like, damn guys, at least try to make it believable.

Governments get really intense creating propaganda when they goto war. So if they're going to war with Iran, expect lots of propaganda.

You should assume every online space has disinformation, bad actors, trolls, sea lions, and other types of undergrowth. That is why critical thinking is so important.

Reddit's been compromised for a while.

Just waiting for Thiel to buy Reddit.

Yeah, its like they named themselves intentionally.

Palantír - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

The software data-collection company Palantir Technologies was named by its founder, Peter Thiel, after Tolkien's seeing stones.

Facebook.

Coordinated astroturfing on reddit isnt even a new thing. I had the chance to watch how the whole marketing efforts for the Burnout Paradise remaster unfolded from the very first minute . That was back in 2018. It was so blatant how all the posts popped up on the same minute on several different subreddit and then slowly filled with obvious shill comments which got unnatural ammounts of upvotes. I mean there was also some natural engagement. Its still a beloved franchise. But that made it even easier to pick out the tonedeaf marketeer comments since the remaster wasnt that great and it already showed in the prerelease footage. But astroturfing was probably a thing from the very beginning of reddit. But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

10 years at least.

But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

You must have been too young in 2015. Redditors watched in amazement as "the switch" flipped from Bernie to Hillary in literal hours.

The DNC later admitted to spending millions of dollars on actual shills, employed by ActBlue, to "Correct the Record" on Hillary.

Let me throw a disgusted upvote in your general direction.

Back then i still clinged to the few active forums which were still around. I slowly started to switch to reddit 2016 i think.

Versions of them are here already. Their focus right now is to:

• start violence at protests, especially around LA and target cities like NY, Seattle, Chicago, etc.
• seed doubt in anything related to the republican agendas or what they have done. Usually starts with, "I hate trump like the rest of us, but...." or something like that.
• downvote the shit out of people that call anything like the above out. They'll come in later, one by one, to do this.

They usually congregate over the weekend and during or right after major events (like the protest). Watch for them this weekend or stay away from Lemmy. If you watch for it, downvote them and upvote the people fighting them, but most of all, take what everyone says with a grain of salt.