An Inside Look into How Reddit Fights Cyber Threats

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How does Reddit handle malicious or suspicious coordinated activity ontheir platform? Our host Luke McNamara asked Aylea Baldwin, ThreatIntelligence Lead at Reddit, to answer that question and more duringthis episode of Eye on Security.During the discussion Aylea shared a few ways Reddit is uniquecompared to other social media networks—its tolerance for varyinglevels of behavior on different communities, the lack of user datacollection, and the way posts are amplified through voting. The votingfeature is unique to Reddit and Luke was curious to know how threatactors leverage it as part of their influence campaigns. As it turnsout, the answer to that question isn’t so simple since foreign actorshave to get buy-in from people to up-vote their posts.We ended our conversation with Aylea’s thoughts on the future ofdisinformation and deep fake technology, which is a concern in thesecurity and many other industries, and something that can have a hugeinfluence on sites such as Reddit.