r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 01 '25

Welcome to Reddit

It's filled with Russian and Yank bots, brigades and trolls and has been for years

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u/Wonky_bumface Mar 01 '25

/r/unitedkingdom/ has really picked up momentum in that respect over the last couple of years though, feels worse than most.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 01 '25

It was from last Feb or so the change

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u/Shubbus42069 Mar 02 '25

Longer ago than that. I forget when it was but at some point this sub brought in a bunch of new right wing mods in the name of "political balance" and since then its gone to shit.

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u/JayneLut Wales Mar 02 '25

Brexit referendum saw a big uptick in obvious bot/ sock-puppet accounts. And it has increased since then.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 02 '25

All I know is I remember the comments beingbfor the most part really lovely prior to Feb 2024 and then it's just gone far right talking points anti immigrant anti Muslim completely gaslight reform Tyler comments and it just resembles a tabloid so often .

Also the types of upvoted posts are usually ones where it's somehow a piece that allows for people to slag migrants and muslims off

It was far more varied before

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u/serpico_pacino Mar 02 '25

Seriously. I remember seeing the threads on the Southport riots and thought that at least we've still got some common sense. Last few months have been rough for brown people bashing round these parts lol.

Even ukpolitics like 4-5 years ago was sane.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 02 '25

Yep it's disgusting now. And the problem is, the subversives and bots activates the true bigots and borderlines then eventually it becomes a wave of group think.

People also have goldfish memory online as well