According to the comments r/europe_sub and r/canada_sub might be involved as well.
I mean if you read any Reddit that during the road to the recent USA elections, Biden should have won by an extremely large margin, and later , Kamala.
If we used Reddit threads of those months as reference, we’d currently been talking about how hard Kamala won
But she didn’t
So yeah, take whatever is on Reddit, and now Lemmy, with an asteroid sized pinch of salt
Not saying those comments were fake, they certainly represent someone, now, wheater that someone is a sizeable amount of voters…
As always, trust but verify. I was telling people here for months that Kamala hadn’t won yet and everybody needed to get out and spread the word on Project 2025.
We saw what happened, and we see a lot of opinions here on Lemmy. Trust but verify.
Good evidence of astroturfing on Reddit. That Reddit took action and banned the Palantir agents only provides evidence that exposure of the op is the problem. Not evidence that Reddit acts in good faith.
Put me in my place if this is nonsense but doesn’t it make way more sense if the astroturfing is done by WSB goons? I just don’t see corporate entities coordinating this kind of thing
The top hits for my “WSB” search are:
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World Sports Betting
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r/WallStreetBets
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World Superbikes
I don’t think any of their goons are astroturfing (well, maybe World Superbikes). Did you mean a different entity?
Sorry I thought this was more common, it’s definitely wall Street bets
Do you mean investors are trying to manipulate stocks by planting stories? Yeah, I think so. But intelligence agencies have whole training programs on how to manipulate narratives, and a very long track record of doing so.
See: Israel’s hasbara apparatus,
GCHQ leaked documents on infiltrating and derailing socialist discussions,
Church Committee Hearings,
“The Cultural Cold War” by Frances Stonor Saunders.
Astroturfing is definitely a thing that exists but what evidence is there that palantir the company is spending resources that way?
Most companies have marketing and PR departments, not GCHQ and IDF veterans
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Palantir is the absolute scum of the information world. Tech with promise, but used in the worst kind of ways.
What kind of ways, can you explain?
3 light reading articles. Enjoy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/
I read them and there were some interesting parts scattered amidst poor journalism and FUD
Is your position basically just ACAB?
