Absolutely, you cannot trust reddit content anymore. If anybody wants to still visit the site, I recommend you buy and AdBlock Gold subscription, which you can get at half the price now. Link and discount code in my profile
Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 2 months agoDang good catch on the second user, I wouldn’t have noticed since I usually don’t look at people’s profiles.
It’s kind of funny that reddit will become this chamber of advertisers making posts and fake users “engaging” while the real people all migrate to lemmy.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wiz@midwest.social 2 months ago
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Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Weren’t they also caught using AI bots to drive up engagement in some subreddits, too? (I think it was supposed to be some of their subreddits in foreign languages or something.)
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did you really think all those positive comments were genuine? I almost puked reading the first few.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I live in the Midwest, and I’ve actually seen a few of those on plates at potlucks. It is indeed disgusting.
londos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m also curious if the fake users are part of the campaign or if reddit is scamming the advertisers too.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why not both?