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[–] PizzaClinton [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Trump is actively managing Reddit, Voat, & 4 Chan, he used them to win the election, and he's still using them.

Questions like: Is Donald Trump reading Reddit?

As Brandon Wall, a reporter for BuzzFeed pointed out, Trump’s tweet to O’Donnell came shortly after O’Donnell’s December tweet was published to the Reddit forum r/ The_Donald. A screenshot from Reddit’s The_Donald forum, where the Rosie O’Donnell tweet was posted shortly before Donald Trump retweeted it.

The idea that the president of the United States is checking Reddit is maybe perplexing—doesn’t he have better things to do?—but not outlandish. After all, Trump won the meme wars before he won the presidency, as Ben Schreckinger wrote for Politico:

By the fall, a team in the war room at Trump Tower was monitoring social media trends, including The_Donald subreddit—a message board that acted as a conduit between 4Chan and the mainstream Web...” Schreckinger wrote “and privately communicating with the most active users to seed new trends, according to two former Trump campaign officials. The team would bump up anything particularly catchy to social media director Dan Scavino.