This is because we've since banned some of the reported domains, which means the posts are being caught by our filter which is pretty confusing. Ideally, we would block the post at submit time, which would be more transparent.
We don't normally take action or share details in the middle of such an investigation, but since this has so much attention right now, we’re making an exception. The domains we banned that were mentioned in the original post include:
eddit is currently engulfed in controversy, after a post describing an alleged Russian misinformation effort on “the_donald” subreddit disappeared from the site without explanation. Reddit user DivestTrump posted a detailed account of what he believed to be Russian websites linking through American hosts to post propaganda on the Donald Trump subreddit. The post gained massive traction, being gilded multiple times and reaching the front page of r/all. The now-deleted post claims sites like “geotus.army” brought viewers to a Russian-owned website and were upvoted by the thousands on t_D.
After a day, the post mysteriously disappeared from the “fuckthealtright” subreddit, causing confusion amongst users of the platform. The original poster deleted their account and the post. Users wondered why such a post would mysteriously vanish, sparking conspiracy theories about the reddit admins, Russia and what possibly could have happened to run rampant. After a full day of speculation, reddit users finally got an answer.
The original poster, using an alternative account that has also since been deleted but reddit admins confirmed was legitimate, shared their reasons for deleting the account. “I pissed off spez and other admins by releasing the info when I did,” the user wrote. Spez is the account name of Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who has actively pushed to keep “the_Donald” from being deleted.
“When I made my post, the admins were caught off guard,” the OP wrote. “Spez gave me a brief 'I'm not mad, I'm disappointed' response. He seemed like he genuinely wanted to do a thorough dive on the reports and I cut that short. Remember that the sites were on reddit for over a year. So, sorry spez, but I don't feel that bad.”
Joshua Bailey
Eat onions
Dominic Jones
>McCain is a traitor.
And you are a russian troll. Trumpstein is a traitor and draft dodger.
Jaxon Rodriguez
>FUCK NATIONALISM >ANYONE THAT SHARES A RUSSIAN NEWS SOURCE IS A TRAITOR
Samuel Sanchez
>anyone that doesn't support neocon wars is a shill for russia
Lucas Jenkins
>>anyone that doesn't support neocon wars is a shill for russia
Then support Democrats instead of kike dictator Putin and his jewish oligarch buddies.
Those sites no longer work. Is this all they got? Odd sounding websites c with flagrantly shifty sounding domain names? This is it? Sounds more like a move to shut down t_d
Leo Anderson
Trump is a pro-racemixing cuck, granted. But the US was not supposed to have a standing army to begin with
>Don't support kikes, support my globalist agenda and communism which are obviously kike free, good go- guy
Zachary Harris
When it comes to war, neocon democrat same same
Ryan Jackson
everyone EVERYWHERE in the world knew that mccain was a nigger who worked with terrorists. you are a terrible shill you should get fired or just kys
Parker Hernandez
Disrespecting US servicemen like that. Got a lot of nerve coming from the country that is literally the punch line of the international community. Or should I say communidad? Kill yourself.
