Kudos Ashley, incredible journalism as per usual from you. Insidious digital terrorism on display. Most disconcerting of all, as you point out, all best in class LLMs are deeply trained on and often rely on Reddit data for retrieval augmented generation. The training can't be rolled back ...

Even in the year 2025, it feels strange and new to read competent journalism on internet topics. Though I'm not surprised I'm reading it in Pirate Wires. Ashley has been knocking these stories out of the park.

Wow I noticed this in December 2023. r/Documentaries was posting near daily anti-Israel propaganda videos. When I commented something calling it out, I was immediately banned from that subreddit along with r/Palestine and r/Therewasanattempt… two subs I’d never even visited.

This is next level journalism. Incredible work.