Only about 19% of Reddit users identify as Conservatives. More than twice as many, 43%, identify as liberal. The remaining percentage self identify as moderate. Does this sound like Trump's core constituency? 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. /r/politics is by default in every users list of subscribed sub-reddits. The demographics skew heavily toward young very liberal voters (core Democrat constituency). And skew heavily away from Trump's core constituency (very conservative men over 40). 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 . http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html

"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 (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 written, sourced or edited for grammar as well as I'd like because I'm at work. You can also look back to the days right before the big wikileaks drop when articles on /r/politics were decidedly anti Trump for about 2 or 3 days but criticism of Trump were strangely absent again right around the same time the hacked DNC emails hit wikileaks and on the majority of other days given the wildly controversial (not to mention stupid, ignorant, bigoted and pro-fascist) nature of the things that come out of his throat hole. It is my belief that lul was either a vacation of sorts to prepare for putting in overtime during the DNC or because all hands were on decks helping with the email drop or some combination of the two.

Edit 3: I've been messaged a few times about getting this circulated to someone who can give this more coverage or at the very minimum better research but I honestly do not know who or where to turn to do so. Please email it, link it to whoever you can. Maybe someone better equipped to re-write this into something more substantive. The more I looked at this, the more concerned I began to get. For the record, I am not a conspiracy theorist. In fact just the opposite, I'm a hobbyist conspiracy debunker but when all the usual conspiracy debunking methods failed to show that this was unlikely like finding motive, means, precedence, etc then I really started to feel that conviction should lead to some kind of action. I'm still at work but if someone could send this to a friendly outlet, daily show, colbert something like that I'd really appreciate it. Maybe I am paranoid but I'd certainly like to get a second opinion from someone capable of doing the necessary footwork because I am not qualified to take this all the way.