Reddit Psy-Op

Notes from Flesh Simulator's video [language warning]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GtYaruTys&t=356s

Reddit's 2014 year-end blog post was taken down and edited, but can be recovered using the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20140322005227/https://redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html

It gives some interesting analytics for the site. One detail stands out:

"Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)
Eglin Air Force Base, FL"

In fact, only ~3,000 people lived there. That's a lot of visits per every person.

What does this Air Force base house, you might ask?

• 688th Cyperspace Wing,
• 690th Cyberspace Operations Group,
• 692nd Cyberspace Squadron
• 47th & 48th Cyberspace Test Squadrons
• Air Force Research Lab,
  • which wrote "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity", which is a study about astroturfing and manufactured consensus.

The above paper is a bit technical, but I shared this information in a reply to a reply on X and it was retweeted by @UltraTerm along with this AI summary: