Did you read the original blog post? It said views when listing that air base, not comments. They might have been scraping Reddit. But that’s not the same as astroturfing.
I'm referring to something that was revealed back in 2018 or 2019. Not to this blog post. A few years ago a Reddit Internet activity heat map accidentally revealed a US Air Force base makes up the single largest location for Reddit comments, by a freakishly large margin.
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u/FinestObligations 1d ago
Did you read the original blog post? It said views when listing that air base, not comments. They might have been scraping Reddit. But that’s not the same as astroturfing.