For reasons that are not discussed openly, the Donald John Trump subreddit, r/The_Donald
has survived a series of subreddit purges, such as the end of the Million Dollar Extreme forums and QAnon forums for being shot through with Alt-Right "content" (cartoons, links to websites, racist comments in code words, etc.) and promoting crazy conspiracy theories in r/the_greatawakening and the other QAnon subreddits. If Redditors want that sort of material, VISUP is a better site for it.
As reported by The Verge and Buzzfeed News, The_Donald has been taking articles from the so-called St. Petersburg "Fake News" factory Internet Research Agency through the websites brutalist.press and USA Really, the latter of which Buzzfeed News states is owned by the "Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation", a "civil society institution." The initial spark of these articles was a post of the subreddit r/FuckTheAltRight by a user with the handle DivestTrump; both the article was deleted, then saved through archive.fo while DivestTrump was hounded off Reddit and then returned under the same name.
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