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Is the Chicago reddit getting astroturfed by NASCAR? (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently there are five PRO nascar posts:

I invite everyone to turn on the NASCAR TV broadcast
NASCAR crew members help fix a car's bumper after it was involved in a fender bender across from the garage area on Lake Shore Drive
Unpopular Opinion, but i think the NASCAR races will be awesome
OK Chicago,this Nascar thing is fun, Now do Formula 1
This checks out…(Randy Sax guerilla marketing link)

and three ANTI nascar:

Meanwhile, we’re doing 15mph on 90/94
Worker dies while setting up Chicago NASCAR race
Chicago’s Nascar Weekend Offers Headaches, Little Economic Gain

Two of the pro-nascar posts are obvious guerilla marketing (the "LSD pit crew repair" post and whatever that Randy Sax thing is). One of the Anti-articles is just news about an unfortunate event.

I think Nascar has hired social media PR/sock puppet groups to astroturf Chicago reddit. I wonder if it's the same people Paul Vallas hired...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Astroturfing has become endemic to reddit. If a given subreddit has more than like 5k subscribers, you can assume someone is probably trying to sell something on it - if not a product then a brand or idea. I hope ActivityPub platforms are successful but not so much that they get polluted with that crap.