Approximately 13% of Reddit users identify as Conservatives. 49% identify as liberal. An astonishing full 6% of American internet users go to Reddit daily, and 7 in 10 reddit users get their news from reddit making it an extremely high value target of opportunity for manipulation of public opinion and /r/politics is by default in every users list of subscribed sub-reddits. The remaining percentage self identify as moderate. The demographics skew heavily toward younger voters. And skew heavily away from Trump's core constituency. For months the dialogue on /r/politics has been heavily weighted to Trump's advantage on most days... except for a small handful of days and odd hours when suddenly things revert to the typically normal distribution of mixed views that I've come to expect on /r/politics. On most days, both articles and comments that are significantly critical of Trump are buried in a wall of downvotes except on those strange days when the distribution radically changes briefly. There's more. There's a large and growing body of evidence that many pro-Russia/Putin trolls tracked by Andy Adrian Chen of the NY Times New Yorker on twitter suddenly began posing as Pro-Trump Americans. This is happening. There is no demographic or historical precedence for /r/politics to have been skewed so heavily towards a candidate whose supporter demographics are so far disconnected from the actual demographics of reddit. Outside of the standard subreddits, opinions of Trump are much, much more dismal than they are presented in here and the larger reddits. Those reddits are a-political. For instance, /r/skeptic and /r/atheism... which have a much more respresentative distribution of Reddit's demographics where political orientations are concerned (for example: there are tons of highly outspoken conservative and libertarian atheists and skeptics and furthermore libertarians also account for an outsized distribution of Redditors...) The skeptic and atheist movement may normally significantly tilt liberal but so does reddit's demographic distribution in general by massive numbers. Get out of your echo-chamber and comfort zone. The narrative here is being gamed and its quite easy to tell if you bother to pay enough attention just by the simple fact that the most vote-controversial articles on /r/politics and similarly large popular subreddits are all those that do not support Trump or are critical of Trump. It's already a matter of public record that Putin is in the tank for Trump and Putin has an already infamous internet troll village so this has precedence. To repeat, there is well documented means, motive, precedence and evidence of participation. This is not a tin foil hat moment.

I'm at work so this won't be sourced as well as I would like but read this list please. I'm not just running at the mouth here.

“I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don’t know what’s going on, but they’re all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff. I feel like it’s some kind of really opaque strategy of electing Donald Trump to undermine the US or something. Like false-flag kind of thing. You know, that’s how I started thinking about all this stuff after being in Russia.” http://uproxx.com/news/russia-army-trolls-internet-trump/

Not only that, but it is extremely well organized.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html . https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-171-adrian-chen . http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7

. http://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-trolls-the-u-s-internet-1433715770

"It is designed, as retired KGB General Oleg Kalugin once defined it, 'to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts, particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United States in the eyes of the people in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs.' The most common subcategory of active measures is dezinformatsiya, or disinformation: feverish, if believable lies cooked up by Moscow Centre and planted in friendly media outlets to make democratic nations look sinister."

Furthermore the matter of Russian involvement in the DNC hack and subsequent leak is already widely believed to be the work of Russia by not just private security firms but by the intelligence community and the FBI as well. And it doesn't just end there, RT (the Russia Today), an entire news organization akin to Fox News, was created expressly by the Russian government at Putin's orders to game the western dialogue and sway western opinion on matters of Russia's and largely Putin's personal interests.

This is extremely serious business. Spread the word as well as you can. The only thing that can effectively combat this is a public campaign against this attempt to game our national dialogue.

Edit 2: I'm very sorry about this not being sourced or edited for grammar as well as I'd like because I'm at work.