>>247292 (OP)
There has been a full-on shill allocation algorithm in place for almost twenty years with active propaganda and narrative control.
Paid departmental monitoring goes much further back than that.
It got particularly bad with Obama fucking up the Smith-Mundt act but things were getting bad long before that, 2007 was a major turn for the worse.
Never forget that Ghislaine Maxwell wasn't just "a" reddit mod, but the most active and powerful reddit mod.