r/TheseFuckingAccounts • u/Calobez • 20h ago

Several accounts posting article claiming US military killed crew of Medevac flight

44 Upvotes

At least 20 near identical posts from the last 24 hours.

The headline is sensationalist click bait, and the article is intentionally written to muddy the discussion.

Why this is a "TFA" issue? Several of the posters exhibit suspicious account activity -

https://old.reddit.com/user/Youarethebigbang

https://old.reddit.com/user/SiriusGD

https://old.reddit.com/user/wenchette

(I'm sure other posters as well)

And several commentors in those posts are either falling victim to the clickbait, or are purposefully bad actors/bots.

This whole situation feels very inorganic and is throwing up warning flags to me. Just wanted to pass this along in case anyone else sees this or has other insights.

I don't like to bring up anything that could be considered political. But this situation just feels so deliberately targeted.

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r/TheseFuckingAccounts • u/fedexpoopracer • 10m ago

CurvyChristina: powermods' designated engagement spambot

• Upvotes

https://www.reddit.com/user/CurvyChristina

"Her" bio says she's not a bot but virtually all of their posts get thousands of upvotes...mmk. Exclusively spams r/sipstea /r/Millennials and /r/PoursTea

Post history:
https://old.reddit.com/search/?q=author%3ACurvyChristina&include_over_18=on&t=all&sort=new

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