Very interesting. Thank you for the link! When digging into this a little more, I came across this Reddit post[1], which pointed me to this research paper[2] authored, in part, an associate of Eglin AFB [2.1].
References
Title: “Reddit has removed their blog post identifying Eglin Air Force Base as the most reddit-addicted “city” - Eglin is often cited as the source of some government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs”. Author: “Mumberthrax” u/Mumberthrax. “r/Blackout2015”. Reddit. Published: 2016-08-19T22:11:33.372Z. Accessed: 2024-12-13T03:55Z. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_post_identifying/.
Title: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity”. Author: “Zhen Kan”, “Justin Klotz”, “Eduardo L. Pasiliao Jr”, “Warren E. Dixon”. arxiv. Published: 2014-02-23T18:13:47Z. Accessed: 2024-12-13T03:59Z. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1402.5644. https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5644v1.
One of the authors has a footnote stating that they are associated with
Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL 32542, USA
Do you have a handy source for those as well? Please don’t interpret my prying for sources as sealioning — I’m very curious to read more about this, and I want to make sure that what I find is actually what you are referring to.
Can you cite a source for this?
Besides public disclosure documents? Reddit admins accidentally outed them before they started masking their traffic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1
Very interesting. Thank you for the link! When digging into this a little more, I came across this Reddit post [1], which pointed me to this research paper [2] authored, in part, an associate of Eglin AFB [2.1].
References
Do you have a handy source for those as well? Please don’t interpret my prying for sources as sealioning — I’m very curious to read more about this, and I want to make sure that what I find is actually what you are referring to.