But the power moderators and their anonymity are certainly a huge legitimacy problem. There are subreddits that are more important in shaping opinions than the New York Times or Washington Post, and the people controlling discussion in them are anonymous.
It's hard to underestimate how enormous a problem this is.
Early reddit ramped up quickly for many reasons, not the least for a number of early "super" moderators pushing links to a breadth of media publications.
Leaving Epstein aside:
Born in France and raised in Oxford, Maxwell is the daughter of British media proprietor Robert Maxwell and French-born researcher of the Holocaust, Elisabeth Maxwell.
I suspect u/Maxellhill had password control by Ghislaine and a degree of personal use, but the bulk of the links and constant presence was maintained by PA's.
Other global media empires have their footprint across reddit in early super accounts.
I think it's more that /r/worldnews has removed any critical voices long ago.
I don't even remember when I was myself banned. It's a very 'shaped' subreddit, and not just on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Do you think the moderator account u/Maxwellhill on r/worldnews belonged to Ghislaine Maxwell? (The one that hasn’t posted since her arrest in 2019)
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4460492/ghislaine-maxwell-reddi...
It's absolutely possible.
But the power moderators and their anonymity are certainly a huge legitimacy problem. There are subreddits that are more important in shaping opinions than the New York Times or Washington Post, and the people controlling discussion in them are anonymous.
It's hard to underestimate how enormous a problem this is.
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Early reddit ramped up quickly for many reasons, not the least for a number of early "super" moderators pushing links to a breadth of media publications.
Leaving Epstein aside:
I suspect u/Maxellhill had password control by Ghislaine and a degree of personal use, but the bulk of the links and constant presence was maintained by PA's.
Other global media empires have their footprint across reddit in early super accounts.
That subreddit has been a forum for nation-state trolls for a long time.