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      Reddit admins accidentally outed them before they started masking their traffic.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1

      Very interesting. Thank you for the link! When digging into this a little more, I came across this Reddit post [1], which pointed me to this research paper [2] authored, in part, an associate of Eglin AFB [2.1].

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      1. Title: “Reddit has removed their blog post identifying Eglin Air Force Base as the most reddit-addicted “city” - Eglin is often cited as the source of some government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs”. Author: “Mumberthrax” u/Mumberthrax. “r/Blackout2015”. Reddit. Published: 2016-08-19T22:11:33.372Z. Accessed: 2024-12-13T03:55Z. .
      2. Title: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity”. Author: “Zhen Kan”, “Justin Klotz”, “Eduardo L. Pasiliao Jr”, “Warren E. Dixon”. arxiv. Published: 2014-02-23T18:13:47Z. Accessed: 2024-12-13T03:59Z. DOI: . .
          • One of the authors has a footnote stating that they are associated with

            Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL 32542, USA

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      Besides public disclosure documents?

      Do you have a handy source for those as well? Please don’t interpret my prying for sources as sealioning — I’m very curious to read more about this, and I want to make sure that what I find is actually what you are referring to.