Hello, everyone. First, before I even start, let me say that there are things which I cannot say, in order to protect my identity from being known. This is a very serious issue and there are some seriously powerful people involved in this, and if they were to find out who I am, I and my family could be in danger. I will answer questions from you guys if I can, but if I say I can't say anything about something, don't ask any more about it. I will be intentionally vague for the purpose of my and my family's protection, I hope you understand.
Now then... I think it is pretty obvious that Reddit is overrun by shills - that's why most of us are here, right? But I don't think most people really realize the scope of what is going on. There is an IMMENSE propaganda operation going on, on Reddit, on 4chan, and just about every other major website on the entire English-speaking internet (and I will assume the same goes for non-English websites to some degree as well). But let me start with how I know about this sort of thing. I was hired at what I thought was an ordinary PR firm in an ordinary office building. However, it very quickly became apparent that this was not just some PR or advertising operation.
There were a number of companies that I was instructed to "push" online. Mostly technology and food companies, at first. I would be sent a message that I was to go to Reddit and post a specific picture with a specific title. Sometimes, it was obvious, like a picture of a product front and center with some witty one-liner as the title. In minutes, it would have hundreds of upvotes. Other times, I would be sent a link and told to upvote it - and my station was rigged up to be able to constantly switch accounts and IP addresses, so that I could upvote something dozens of times and no one would be the wiser. I was told this was simply a new method of advertising, and I should just do it and not complain. So I did this for a while, and I knew it was terrible to do, but I needed money and thought it was fairly harmless.
After working there for a while, I started getting new kinds of assignments. I would be told to go to a thread, upvote it, and promote a specific point. Some of the assignments included going into a thread about a military officer seeing his kid for the first time since he started service, upvote it and say something like "Thank you for your service!" or "Aww how precious! Glad the kid finally gets to see their daddy!" Y'know, stuff like that. Another assignment was to post positive messages about a particular politician. It went from mere harmless advertisement for products, to police, military and politician worship.
After more time, the messages I was being required to push became even more aggressive and politically sensitive. For example, I was being told to mock people who believed that 9/11 was an inside job, mock people who were anti-vaccine, and an oddly huge amount of worship for Israel and demonization of Palestine. This wasn't just advertisement anymore. This was pushing political agendas. I was obviously not comfortable with this, but the boss made numerous threats to people in the office to not ask any questions about the content they were "advertising".
But I was just one person. I was mostly made to visit Reddit, but occasionally I would be instructed to go to other websites as well and post things in comments to news articles, videos, etc. I was never made to go on 4chan but I know that others in my office had been, and were being told to post the same kind of content.
So, what does this all mean? It means that Reddit is pretty much run by shills. I don't know if the admins are in on it (though I would venture that at least some of them are), but I know for an absolute fact that there are many, many moderators for many default and popular subs that are without a doubt paid shills. Posting a list would simply take too long, but I assure you, 8 out of 10 default mods are paid shills. If in doubt, look at the list of subs that they moderate. Defaults and popular subs are very heavily monitored by firms like mine (as well as military bases which have the same thing going on), and have wormed their way into moderator positions in order to push certain agendas and disallow discussion of the opposition. If someone moderates more than 1 or 2 default or very popular subs, they are a shill, period. They simply would not be allowed to moderate more or else the agenda could be compromised.
And you will notice that a lot of these subs share moderators, and some of these moderators moderate dozens, if not hundreds of subs. The reason for moderating hundreds isn't just to have them, it's to prevent something against the agenda from popping up on a minor sub and becoming linked in another sub where they have less control and becoming popular.
Reddit is compromised by shills. Period. And so are 4chan and many other websites. And you know where it's coming from? The US government. I know for a fact that this same shit is going down at military bases across the country and who else besides the US government would have the ability to force their soldiers to argue with people on the internet about how the newest obvious false flag attack is totally not an inside job? It's government-sponsored propaganda and the masses are buying into the notion that people who call it as much are crazy - which of course, is the plan. I've been told on numerous occasions to insult people for questioning things and not following the status quo. If anybody tells you that there's no such thing as shills, or says a line like "When does my check come in the mail then? LOL", they are a shill and they are being paid to mock you. Do not believe them. Of course, I say this as a shill myself, but at this point I'm only continuing to do it so I can expose them.
Wrapping up, let me give you a short list of things I've been told to push. This is the sort of thing I've been told to say, so you can assume with almost certainty that everything on this list is in actuality the opposite of the truth. Take that as you will.
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9/11 was not an inside job. Anyone who thinks it was is a crazy "truther" which is a conspiracy theorist which is bad.
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Sandy Hook was not an inside job. Anyone who thinks that it was is a crazy conspiracy theorist who wants to harass the families of dead children. Also, the children in Sandy Hook were definitely real and were killed, that's a specific thing I've been told to push.
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People who demand free speech should be mocked.
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Guns are bad and anyone who owns a gun is a potential criminal.
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Shills don't exist.
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The JIDF does not exist.
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Israel is our best ally and one of the nicest nations on Earth and Palestine is a filthy hellhole of terrorists that should be wiped off the map.
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Police are good. Very good. Only criminals think police are bad. Any cases of police brutality are either false or justified.
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Military is good. We should have troops in every country to protect them and give them freedom. Thank you for your service!
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The Boston Bombing was not an inside job and anyone who thinks otherwise is a crazy conspiracy theorist. The other men with backpacks simply did not exist.
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Russians are bad. Period.
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Fukushima is perfectly safe.
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Monsanto's products and all GMOs are perfectly safe and anyone who complains about them is an anti-science conspiracy theorist.
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Vaccines do not cause autism or any other illness and are perfectly safe and do not need any sort of investigation about them. Anyone who disagrees is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
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North Korea definitely was behind the Sony hack.
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If you are concerned about privacy or computer security, you must be a terrorist or conspiracy theorist.
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We must constantly be reminded of the fact that Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Hamas are the greatest evils in our world.
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Anyone who thinks ISIS is backed by the US government in any way is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
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Anyone who thinks that the ISIS beheading videos were staged is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
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Anyone who supports the #GamerGate hashtag is a misogynist and potential rapist.
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Oddly enough, anyone who does NOT support #GamerGate is a crazy Social Justice Warrior. Yes, both sides are being played.
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Anyone who wants to go to Voat or any other Reddit-clone is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
And this is just a brief list. I've been told to push dozens of other major news stories and hundreds of miniscule little advertisements. Take all of this as you will, but I assure you that Reddit, 4chan and just about every other big name website on the English-speaking internet is being heavily monitored and will do absolutely anything to stifle dissent.
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catechumen ago
Sorry can't trust you, it's the internet. Still fairly certain this absolutely does occur though.
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escapefromredditbay ago
up-voted, but i trust the post.