Reddit infiltrated by Russian propaganda in run-up to US election
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#3HEXX)
The social news site says it has removed a few hundred accounts linked to Russian misinformation efforts
Reddit has become the latest social network to admit that it was infiltrated by Russian misinformation actors in the run-up to the 2016 US election.
In a post on the social news site, Reddit's chief executive Steve Huffman said that the company has "found and removed a few hundred accounts" which it suspects are of Russian origin, or which were linking directly to "known propaganda domains".
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