https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4922321-white-house-reddit-hurricane-milton/amp/The White House has spearheaded their hurricane response plan with a 'disinformation' campaign, launching where else? /r/politics on Reddit;
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“We are leaving no stone unturned to reach people where they are, across different digital destinations as well as across different topics,” a White House official said in a statement.
The Reddit page is going to have information about the Biden administration and FEMA’s ongoing response to the storm as well as its recovery and preparedness efforts.
Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for much of Florida’s west coast to prepare for Milton, which is the first major hurricane to directly hit the Tampa area in more than a century.
The Biden administration said it was tracking misinformation online about the storm and was “actively working” to identify and combat it.
The Reddit page will include federal actions and resources, including “state-based sub-Reddits,” sharing already existing hurricane response threads and preparedness efforts.
Now just scrolling through the top of /r/politics and /r/news I have seen the top posts be stuff like;
'elon musk is charging hurricane survivors $400 for starlink when he promised it would be free'. When Elon Musk gave free starlink access to shelters, hubs, fire, police, etc, and waived all subscription costs for 30 days on starlink for consumers, but actually getting a new dish to a new consumer requires shipping it and wouldn't matter until after the storm is passed.
or
'trump should offer mar a lago to the public if he's so great!' followed by 'yeah okay he offered up all the rooms at doral to first responders but he's actually charging them!'. When of course, Trump National Doral is giving all its rooms to power and light workers for
free;
https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1844045888160928092or
'Helene was the worst flooding even this country had ever seen. That is a direct result of spiking ocean temps. We are seeing the catastrophic, devastating, deadly results of climate change NOW, today, and we need to realize that.'
because everything NOAA has studied about oceanic climate change is completely wrong and these reddit armchair experits have found the one true-true
So yeah Biden is launching a disinformation campaign straight into the dark heart of disinformation itself, the cesspool that is the beating /r/politics heart of reddit.