Disclaimer: This is just some research on the sources of some posts on voat. Everything here is just speculation and may be unreliable.

I was reading some things on /v/news and noticed shadow332's post on a post made by @PolishBot linking to a weird or spammy website: pesticides.news. Now shadow332 pointed out that this user only posts from a certain set of accounts and only makes single sentence posts. In addition I noticed that @MadWorld and @offender found some more things about the site, so I dug deeper.

The website reach.news owns not just pesticides.news, but hundreds of other websites! Check their homepage (archive).

Okay, but who cares? Look at the source code of pesticides.news and you will see lots of this: <!-- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -->

Also you will see this: <script src="Javascripts/Abigail.js"></script>

and lots of this

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Now let's go back to reach.news, you see the same things in their source code as well. This shows that they're probably owned and operated by the same exact persons.

Now in the source code of fetch.news you will see it again:

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And another common artifact: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300" /><!-- Refresh every 5 minutes -->

Fetch.news and reach.news are probably the same people! Now take a look at all of the domains from fetch.news (archive): cdc.news, CIA.fetch.news, dea.fetch.news, epa.news, fbi.fetch.news, fcc.fetch.news, fda.news, fema.fetch.news, irs.fetch.news, NSA.fetch.news, tsa.fetch.news, usda.fetch.news, Bencarson.FETCH.news, berniesanders.fetch.news, carlyfiorina.fetch.news, trump.news, gregabbott.news, clinton.news, jebbush.fetch.news, biden.fetch.news, randpaul.news, tedcruz.fetch.news, whitehouse.news, censorship.news, civilwar.news, disinformation.news, entitlements.news, falseflag.news, fascism.news, firstamendment.news, foodfreedom.news, grocery.news, guncontrol.fetch.news, jadehelm.fetch.news, liberty.news, martiallaw.news, medicalchoice.news, nannystate.news, NationalDefense.news, nullification.news, nullify.news, obama.fetch.news, openborders.news, patriot.news, patriotic.news, policestate.news, politicalcorrectness.news, propaganda.news, retracted.news, richardpan.news, sanctuarycities.fetch.news, secession.news, secondamendment.news, selfdefense.news, tyranny.news, whistleblower.news, facebook.fetch.news, monsanto.news, walmart.fetch.news, anticancer.news, cacao.news, chocolate.news, cleanfood.news, detox.news, fasting.news, fishoils.news, foodinflation.news, frankenfoods.news, goldenrice.fetch.news, greenwashing.news, herbs.news, homegardening.news, ingredients.news, longevity.news, organicfarming.news, organics.news, phytonutrients.news, rawfood.news, rawmilk.news, seeds.news, spices.news, superfoods.news, sweeteners.news, veggie.news, wheyprotein.news, wholefoods.news, bankingcartel.news, banksters.news, bitcoin.fetch.news, corruption.news, debtcollapse.news, flattax.news, GoldMarket.news, marketcrash.news, nationaldebt.news, pensions.news, SilverMarket.news, extremeweathernews.com, naturaldisaster.news, offgridliving.news, preparedness.news, selfreliance.news, survival.news, waterfilters.news, waterpurifiernews.com, alternativemedicine.news, antioxidants.news, astaxanthin.news, CBDs.news, chinesemedicine.news, chlorella.news, essentialoils.news, genetherapy.news, herbal.news, marijuanatoday.news, medicinalherbs.news, moringa.news, naturalcures.news, naturalmedicine.news, nutrients.news, omega3.news, pethealth.news, spirulina.news, turmeric.news, 3dprint.news, aisystems.news, atomic.news, biotech.news, computing.news, cyberattack.news, cyborg.news, DroneWars.news, emf.news, emp.news, encryptionworldnews.com, greenenergy.news, led.news, militaryrobots.news, nanotechnology.news, nuclear.news, powergrid.news, quantumcomputing.news, rfid.fetch.news, robotsrisingnews.com, solarpower.fetch.news, space.news, spacetourism.news, spacetravel.news, spacecraft.news, supercollider.news, supercomputer.news, virtualreality.news, wifi.fetch.news, alzheimers.news, bigpharma.fetch.news, cancerscams.news, chemotherapy.news, dementia.news, dentistry.news, diabetessciencenews.com, doctoroz.news, flushotnews.com, immunization.news, influenza.news, medicalkidnapping.news, menshealth.news, oncology.news, outbreak.news, preventcancer.news, psychiatry.news, SideEffects.news, ssri.news, statins.news, superbugs.news, thimerosal.news, vaccinecourtnews.com, vaccineInjurynews.com, vaccines.news, womenshealth.news, aluminum.news, arsenic.news, aspartame.news, atrazine.news, chemicals.news, cigarettes.fetch.news, cosmetics.news, fluoride.news, glyphosate.news, heavymetals.news,. mercuryscienceNews.com, roundup.news, sweetenernews.com, toxicchemicalsnews.com, toxins.news, vaccinedamage.news, jimmywales.news, jonentine.news, msnbc.news, npr.news, pauloffit.news, politifact.news, washingtonpost.news, vox.news, abortions.news, addiction.news, bioterrorism.news, breastfeed.news, censored.news, chemicalviolence.news, commoncore.news, conspiracy.news, depopulation.news, domesticterrorism.com, epigenetic.news, euthanasia.news, FEMAcamps.news, foodshortage.news, foodstamps.news, foodsupply.news, homeschooling.news, isisreport.news, komen.news, labeling.news, lifeafterdeath.news, mindcontrol.news, peakoil.news, populationcontrolnews.com, power.news, privacywatchnews.com, prophecy.news, rioting.news, sheeple.news, shootings.news, smartmeters.news, socialengineering.news, socialunrest.news, stopsmoking.news, technocrats.news, thoughtpolice.news, transhumanism.news, transhumanist.news, ufos.news, unemployment.fetch.news, urbansurvivalnews.com, veteranstoday.news, violentcrime.news, wages.news, waterwars.news, zombie.news, agenda21.news, aquifers.news, bees.news, chemtrailsnews.com, cleanwater.news, climatesciencenews.com, drought.news, extinction.news, fracking.news, fukushima.news, geoengineering.news, globalwarming.fetch.news, herbicide.news, honeybees.news, permaculture.news, pesticide.news, radioactive.news, zeolites.news

We found a website that controls a lot of link-farm-type websites. Just the registration fees on these domains would be well over $4000 per year. Well now if you search some of these domains on searchvoat.co you can start finding some voat users who are shilling these websites. Here are just a few finds. (There are way more than this though. Try looking at the other sites they post, then follow those domains to see a bigger picture.):

@Jsjynxst - liberty.news, survival.news

@Sueshia101 - censorship.news, corruption.news

Now there's something very weird about @Jsjynxst. His account stopped being used 2 years ago, but then started posting again 2 months ago - sleeper?. Now if we look at his history (archive) the weird thing is that he double-posted both liberty.news and survival.news. And again we find that these are part of that same network of websites when you view the raw html of these websites.

I can't do research for all of these sites and users, but you can probably find a lot of bots/shills from these websites.

Now to go back to pesticides.news, I found another domain in their network "bugout.news" (view source and you see the same signs). It has no information as who owns it, but if you check the archive of usafeaturesmedia.net you will see that they own it, oops! Their company is registered as USA Features Media LLC.

Further research is left up to the reader.