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Endless Thread

Still Breaking

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Redditors discover a massive online conspiracy. A man risks life, limb and the ire of morning motorists to protect the ideal of a free and open internet.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

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0:49.7

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0:54.9

料理 and cheese shapes. Rise them all in the cheese and nook guitar.

0:59.4

Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.

1:09.4

About a year ago on May 9th, 2017, a guy named Matt found something.

1:15.4

I was home from work, sick, by myself, in my basement, which is of course my natural habitat.

1:21.4

Matt is a tax preparer from a little town in Massachusetts. His reddit handle is hockey mass.

1:27.4

What Matt found was deep in the weeds of a comment section on a website.

1:31.4

Part of a specific conversation on a specific website, which we'll get to,

1:36.4

just know that he was doing what you do when you're homesick in your natural basement habitat.

1:42.4

So I went to file a comment and after I had filed my own comment, I started looking through a bunch of comments

1:50.4

that other people had been filing and seeing the numbers creep up and seeing the traction that it was getting.

1:55.4

Then Matt's hauling another comment that looked weird.

1:58.4

It seemed like boilerplate, like it just seemed off.

2:02.4

And then I started looking at for this text, seeing if this appeared over and over, and it did.

2:07.4

It came up 50,000 times.

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