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Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls

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142 points mzs | 2 comments | 15 Mar 19 15:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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JohnJamesRambo ◴[15 Mar 19 17:00 UTC] No.19401632[source]▶
I’m not so sure Hacker News is free of the same group. Post an article critical of China sometime and watch the comments. People genuinely posting opposing viewpoints is fine and normal but there is something very uncanny valley about most of them.

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1. MoronInAHurry ◴[15 Mar 19 17:08 UTC] No.19401747[source]▶
It definitely seems to be happening here too, I've noticed it as well. Articles about China get very strange activity, including a lot more green names (new users) than you'd see in any other posts.
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2. naravara ◴[15 Mar 19 17:18 UTC] No.19401861[source]▶
Might this just be how ultra-nationalist types work? I’m less familiar with the dynamics in China, but with Indian politics any place where people are mildly critical of the Hindu Right can rapidly get brigaded. And it doesn’t usually seem all that organized or botlike. I think it’s just a country of a billion people with really bad liberal arts education and an extremely sensationalist media culture being unleashed on the web.