The original post: /r/music by /u/MedalsNScars on 2024-09-29 13:45:36.
If you follow this subreddit at all, you’ve probably noticed a glut of posts about Diddy - which, fair, it’s a wild story and worth talking about.
As I’ve said in the past, a very small number of users are responsible for these posts. Since I made that post, 2 more usernames have popped up that have made the front page several times by posting articles from websites that are incredibly suspicious.
/u/JuicyBrains9999 has posted to this subreddit 7 times in the past week. All of this account’s highly-upvoted posts come from “insidenewshub.com”.
/u/maximum-ad3652 has also posted from that website as well as “globalbenefit.co.uk” in the past 24 hours.
I’ve also seen a couple links from “fitfunmagazine.com” (users creampieyourselff and odd_currency_3246)
What is very suspicious is that googling the domain of any of these 3 sites returns nothing but links from those sites and posts of those links to sites like reddit
Seriously, just drop the quoted domain name into a google search (DO NOT VISIT THE WEBSITE) and you’ll find nothing about these websites other than the sites themselves and reddit posts. EVERY legitimate news site I’ve tried this with turns up a wikipedia page or some other way to validate that it’s legitimate.
insidesnewshub.com:
Registered 3 months ago by someone in Iceland
globalbelefit.co.uk:
Registered a year ago through a US Registrar - because they went through a registrar, no public information is available on who actually registered the website, unlike the other two (although that information is minimal and blocked to prevent doxxing here)
fitfunmagazine.com:
I don’t know what the goal is of these sites, but I grew up in an era where you if you wanted to protect your computer, you were careful about what links you clicked. I highly advise not visiting any of these sites and being cautious around any articles from unfamiliar links posted here.
Best case it’s junk journalism trying to get some ad dollars. Middle case it’s some kind of propaganda play. Worst case these sites are maliciously tracking users and/or installing malware.