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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion(medium.com)

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If you’re paywalled, check this archive link.

What the article calls “corporate trolls” is simply astroturfing. It became rampant in Reddit; as the walled garden was unwalled, more of the organic grass has been replaced.

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That’s a very lowball figure.

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