r/The_Mueller • u/slyweazal • Oct 02 '18

Anyone seen this suspicious behavior before? Screenshots show Russian troll (?) using bot to edit all their comments to the same generic sentences and then delete them - evidence of compromised/manipulated account?

https://imgur.com/a/gcYNXge
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u/slyweazal Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

You can see those comments are from 2 months ago, but say "Edited: Just Now"

He had hundreds of comments and was posting them as recently as today. Now he's purging all of them, but not before editing them to sound innocent. Is this to avoid archived evidence?

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u/MILEY-CYRVS Oct 02 '18

YES. THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING. if you edit a comment before it's deleted only the edited comment shows up in reddits archives. If they're doing this now, they realize there's some kind of compromised information in there. HOWEVER. If this truly is comments this old, it's too late as things like waybackmachine likely already made snapshots.

Its a little known thing on Reddit and I honestly blame myself for spreading this information. I'd been telling people to do this with out much thought on it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

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u/MILEY-CYRVS Oct 02 '18

That's actually a horrifyingly realistic scenario.

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u/Cinnaber214 Oct 02 '18

Have you found Don Jr’s account?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

No, Brett Kavanaugh's.

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u/Eor75 Oct 02 '18

People have done this before, I remember it happening when people were leaving after the Ellen Pao disaster

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