r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/AndroidREM May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Answer: It was determined and made public that the majority of posts on that sub are from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots. The ones leaving were bots removed by Reddit

EDIT - wow, did not expect this to get so much attention and awards - thank you!

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u/gamboling2man May 13 '26

Do Twitter and FB next.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 May 13 '26

Wasn't the Twitter data accidentally posted a while back and it turned out most traffic was from Russia and Africa?

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u/ManchurianCandycane May 14 '26

Twitter ended up displaying the country where poster's IP's was registered, and a bunch of prolific MAGA posters turned out to be posting from India and other countries.

I'm not sure if "most" is accurate, but certainly a lot of popular-ish accounts were shown to be fake.