If you read through some of my other stuff, I mostly document controversy in the open source community. OSS developers being taken advantage of and loosing is just the norm, the only thing unique here is that the donation platform itself was doing that instead of the users
I agree these claims are a little crazy, but not actually that crazy. Did a little digging and
that the most redditors were in the town where Eglin Air Force base is located
- Reddit claims this themself (now deleted): https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
- Airforce study on social media manipulation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644
Ghislaine Maxwell
their CEO made their career in the CIA before coming over to Reddit
No fucking clue on this one
I don’t think so, the password was randomly generated
My main has 10s of thousands of karma from a different time in my life and it’s not banned
Why
I can't believe I had to add a rule just for this
Welcome everyone! Just as a PSA, here's a cross instance community explorer: https://browse.feddit.de/
That's why I provided 18 citations for that claim in the first paragraph