two months later Harris-Walz presidential campaign caught changing news headlines In ads on Google to make candidates appear favorable to the Democratic Party GOP congressman to demand answers from Googlean anonymous detective detailed another campaign effort to create the appearance of popularity on an already highly progressive tech platform.

“Reddit Lies” wrote that the campaign manipulated Reddit’s algorithm in a way that violated the platform’s rules. screenshot loaded exposure federalist That Tuesday morning incident apparently sparked a scramble between the campaign and volunteers to conceal the effort.

early afternoon They removed the “Reddit Organizing” spreadsheet It was used to coordinate what Reddit Lies calls a “let’s astroturf campaign,” but another user posted archive from him. A. The list of roles in the operation is no longer publicly availableOwner’s approval is required to view.

Screenshots of the campaign Discord serverused to direct volunteers, “Paused” Reddit and Meme channels as security precaution” and “Empower Messaging” locked channels.

Moderators of Reddit’s 8 million-member political message board, known as the subreddit, removed federalist to report himself when a user posts it. The “Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit to Control Platform” thread allegedly violates board rules.

“I found that 126 of the top 1,000 posts on r/Politics last month were posted by official Harris-Walz campaign volunteers,” Reddit Lies wrote. on October 17 About a quarter of the top posts in the Politics subreddit In a screenshot, it appears to be made by campaign volunteers who identify themselves.

“Apparently Federalist is messing with the server and claiming it is being used for (sic) misinformation,” one Discord user said. manages several subredditsincluding AgainstHateSubreddits with 131,000 members, I wrote to the server — One of several screenshots obtained by Reddit Lies on Tuesday showing internal reaction to the revelation.

Reddit Lies promises two more federalist Reports on the investigation focused on the campaign using social media to “spread election-related disinformation and circumvent election laws.”

The author refused to provide further information about himself Just News.

“Honestly there’s not much reason to write an article specifically about me,” the person wrote in X’s direct message. “What matters above all is the truth. All praise goes to God.”

The allegations bring to mind X’s claims against Media Matters for America for manipulating its algorithm to trigger ads from big brands to appear next to anti-Semitic posts and falsely portraying matches as common to scare advertisers. MMFA laid off at least a dozen employees After the lawsuit filed by X Federal judge recently refused to be removed from office.

Reddit did not respond Just News He questions whether Tuesday’s behavior violated the rules.

“While it’s possible that their accounts would be banned once their actions were discovered, it’s also entirely possible that Reddit would give the Harris-Walz campaign free rein to violate the rules,” Reddit Lies wrote. Comments from CEO Steve Huffman in 2018 “Reddit could influence elections… if we really wanted to,” but “of course it wouldn’t.”

Also on Tuesday Pirate Wires documented a months-long campaign Wikipedia editors have apparently created pages depicting Trump as a fascist – the least subtle of which was on September 21, the same day the UK Guardian published a post “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” comprehensive article titled Just two editors created almost all of this page’s content, “suggesting a tightly coordinated effort to control the narrative.”

This is important because “radical ideologies are brought into the mainstream by Wikipedia,” PirateWires said: Founded by venture capitalist Mike Solana. “The key to this is Google, which pushes Wikipedia articles to the top of search results and often includes a knowledge panel that looks like it has been reviewed by the search giant, even though they have not.”

Bias and manipulation of the platform are among the allegations frequently voiced by Republicans and conservatives this campaign season. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump blames Google showing only negative stories about him and positive stories about Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Justice Committee Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pressed Google over his lawyer’s apparent conflict of interest By setting up Harris for the debate as she fights the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the company. Head of Parliamentary Oversight James Comer, R-Ky., launched an investigation into whether Google misled Americans describe the first assassination attempt on Trump.

Amazon says its voice assistant Alexa is faulty By giving users reasons to vote for Harris, but telling them she can’t do the same for Trump because she can’t support a “specific politician.”

Harris’s Presidential staff posts a “Daily Messaging Guide” in the form of preferred articles, data, and talking points on the Discord server’s Reddit channel, which is then added to the Reddit Organization spreadsheet. X biography of Reddit Lies quotes Ephesians 5:11: “Have nothing to do with the fruitless works of darkness, but expose them.”

From there, the campaign’s most Reddit-savvy volunteers consult their own database of more than 100 communities on the platform to decide where to post each piece of content, using “a calculated, sequential metric of post timing to avoid Reddit’s built-in spam filters.” “As documented in the article in their own Discord conversation about “ban tactics.”

Volunteers then add the links to the editing spreadsheet so that others “flood the post with likes and comments,” triggering Reddit’s algorithm to “get the post to appear on more users’ timelines,” a term known as “brigade,” the anonymous author wrote.

“Beyond r/Politics, they also target swing state subreddits, which are much smaller in number and much less tightly moderated,” and “facilitate the process of targeting them with messages provided by Harris-Walz,” Reddit Lies wrote. Approximately 10% of the top posts in this collection of subreddits came from campaign volunteers from October 13-20.

Campaign digital organization manager Gabrielle Lynn On October 4th, he posted to the Discord server about “a NEW subreddit tracker that will help maximize our influence on Reddit,” an editing spreadsheet created with the help of a Discord user known as “apfel4harris (NY/overseas).”

Reddit Lies reports that another user He said he reported it. Major subreddits like politics, tech, and news using the hashtag #online-engagement-welcome.

“I infiltrated there a few weeks ago” Reddit Lies told another X user: He warned that this was “merely an astroturfing operation” and that the true impact of the campaign was “potentially much higher”.

This practice is “no different than a questionable company paying a team to write a series of fake Amazon reviews about their product to make it seem like a better and more popular product than it actually is,” and “in many cases” violates a platform’s rules, the author wrote in its terms of service .