Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?

It’s been going on since 2016, and getting worse each day. The main change I’ve noticed post November 2024 is r/conservative keeps making it to the front page of popular despite having a much lower upvote tally.

Canadian elections coming up, shareholders of Reddit probably have a stake in conservative politics... Yeah, current social media is gross.

Reddit has been protecting russian bot farms for almost a decade now.

When you ban sensible discussion you're left with utter nonsense

No, I haven't. Because I no longer go on Reddit.

How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?

Still being on Reddit in 2025 has turned into a real leopards eating my face situation.

Reddit will ban anything and everything except right wing bullshit.

you just noticed? it has been there for a while, its infested almost all the subs, that talk about politics or ukraine, or any country.

Probably because it is the only content allowed now.

If by recent you mean 5-6 years then yes

Fuck Reddit. Lemmy is worlds better outside of missing a few niche communities

Haven't been on reddit in a while, so, no I haven't noticed.

Maybe also has something to do with the uptick of banning left leaning people talking about the damage Trump and Musk are doing? There have been a TON of people here saying their 10+ year old accounts have been banned.

Lately?

I don’t know about Reddit as a whole but the subreddit for my country has not only been flooded with far right content, there has been a hostile takeover of the mod team. All of the sensible and balanced mods were forced out and replaced by fascist lunatics.

They're getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff

I'm one week reddit free after 2 bans. I honestly don't miss it. Recently it's been all right-wing propaganda and conspiracies, getting banned for innocuous things, and general hate towards other users. That platform is dying fast. Here's to Lemmy supremacy! 🥂

I think Russian propaganda has always been there it's just been tweaked over the years to match the audience. Reddit has exiled anyone that doesn't support Musk, so by default the audience is mainly far-right. And it has definitely gotten out of hand to such an extreme that most of reddit is just dead internet. Bot posts filled with one liner bot comments that rarely actually engage in a discussion about anything.

I just assume any content that pushes extreme divisiveness on issues and refuses to acknowledge any sort of logic or gray area is probably due to Russian bot swarms on most major platforms.

Before I left reddit for the final time, if there was a message that was clearly being suppressed, any attempts to talk about it would be met with the most irrational wall of resistance.

Like I tried to post on a sub for federal workers back in late Jan telling people they should be refusing illegal orders being given to them. It started to get some traction, and then suddenly it was just like a swarm of very irrationally angry comments and downvotes. Like a thread could be almost completely dead, with no activity in the last several hours and I would make a comment like that and get one or two upvotes and then suddenly within a minute it would be sitting at -15 downvotes.

Idk if a community already exists for this but I feel like we need a way to teach people how to spot bot activity the same way we teach people how to spot disinformation.

At the risk of going against the flow here....no?

I keep seeing Lemmy posts talking about how Reddit is going hard fascist...but half the posts on /r/all are about Trump being a rapist, or celebrating CyberTruck arson, or Luigi memes, etc.

I deleted my Reddit account during the third-party app bullshit and exclusively view it from the old site or OpenArtemis, so I'm not exactly going to defend them, but it isn't nearly as bad as people on here claim it is.

Sure I have. I've also noticed an uptick in far-right users reporting accounts to get them suspended and banned. For people who jump so readily to calling their ideological opponents snowflakes, they're remarkably quick to run to Mods, who're disappointingly happy to accommodate fasch rhetoric.

No longer on Reddit. That’s why I’m here. Kept getting banned because, “who knows”?

I’ve noticed ‘the algorithm’ pushing Russian content through Instagram and Facebook reels. Seemingly unrelated to what I usually browse.

Expect reddit comments to get removed without notice, users to sporadically get banned here and there, while that uptick continues. Reddit has been pretty good at this for years, in the sense of controlling the narrative without raising any obvious flags. The only thing that's surprising is that they are no longer treating Reddit as damage control, but just another social network to control. I guess when the authoritarianism is as overt as it currently is, there's no longer any reason to hide the manipulation as it becomes a liability to allow the already controlled narratives to persist.

A bit too long but very explanatory, an article about Russia's trojan horses

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/kremlin-trojan-horses/

WTF is Reddit?

Seriously though get off that site, it's not good for you.

Also on YouTube

It's everywhere. I'm guessing they have a lot extra free money to spend on propaganda now that they allies with the US.

It's a nazi bar now.

https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-kicks-nazis-out-of-his-punk-bar-even-if-theyre-not-bothering-anyone

Yes. I noticed it. It's maddening. On certain things, half or more if the posts are Russian assets or bots. Reddit could do something about it, but in classic corporate fashion, the Russians increased their user engagement metrics, so they won't do anything about it.

Have you visited ''Ukraine'' on lemmy? No need to go to reddit.

I had to leave about a year ago because of this.

No. You’re seeing what the news looks like without USAID funding propaganda to drown out the truth. A majority of media outlets in Ukraine were taking money from them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/07/ukraine-russia-independent-media-trump-usaid/

I only frequent one closed group on Reddit - the only reason I still have my account. I gather this group to be quite safe. The main page, though, is a mess, USNazis and Russians way to frequent.

Yes, and it's coupled with a significant amount of censorship and increased bot activity pushing right wing and Russian talking points. It's simply not an open platform at this point.

And this is by design. Now that they've spent the last 20 years collecting your content to teach their bots how to write, all they want now is your attention, not your voice.

Who’s on Reddit?

An uptick? Nah, it's always been that way.

Of course, cause all the cool kids moved to Lemmy. They are the only ones left over there.