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I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they’re going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. ‘Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.’
tips tinfoil hat
But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.Misleading title? “Reddit claimed…”, no, others claimed, reddit has not commented
It’s not misleading it’s just written in a passive voice.
If you read the whole sentence it’s fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There’s room for making it more clear but it’s not misleading as written.
Yeah, I wouldn’t call it misleading, but it’s poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. “BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data”
My guess is op (or whoever wrote the title) wanted “reddit” to come first to grab people’s attention. Definitely poorly written though.
Can be read as either “Reddit has claimed” or “Reddit was claimed”, but “and it has threatened” clarifies it is not the former.
I think this does more good for reddit than bad, makes the community look unhinged
Sure but unhinged users don’t look good to investors. Imagine if a place like 4chan tried to IPO?