Kremlin trolls

The following accounts exist primarily to spread Kremlin propaganda, including war crime revisionism, hate speech, and dangerous misinformation. Strikethrough indicates a currently suspended or banned account.

Inclusion in this list does not mean these accounts are state-sponsored or operated. Rather, they all follow a pattern of being older, inactive accounts that "woke" approximately a year ago by posting dangerous COVID-19 misinformation. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, these accounts have exclusively posted Kremlin-sponsored news and Kremlin-backed viewpoints. Medical misinformation has largely fallen off - as if these accounts are incapable of maintaining multiple interests at once.

Accounts:

An example of the type of posts that reddit does not take action against can be found here. This violates both reddit's hate speech and incitement to violence policies - by using an ethnic slur and celebrating war crimes. Reported multiple times, always with an automated response: "We’ve found that the reported content doesn’t violate Reddit’s Content Policy."

A generous view would be that their report system is broken. Less generous - perhaps some members of the reddit team condone this behavior.

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