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Last year two of reddits biggest users (and mods) were accused of being Ghislaine Maxwell. The accounts were u/maxwellhill and u/anutensil. It shocked me how quickly those stories sunk, and how some of the stories derided it as conspiracy-minded drivel.

Well, it's been almost a year since, and the accounts still haven't posted since Ghislaine was arrested.

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I genuinely don't understand why a wanted criminal, famous socialite and multimillionaire thought (at the time) to be in hiding outside the country and known by nearly everyone would spend her time posting links to Reddit accruing millions of comment karma. It straight up does not make sense, and neither does whatever relationship that has to what just happened. It's a total non-sequitur.

It doesn't help matters that they were fairly well known as power user even before [0]. It's the lowest and least creative form of conspiracy theories - really superficial pattern recognition.

[0]: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-maxwellhill-moderator-...

That's what they want you to think.

>I genuinely don't understand why a wanted criminal, famous socialite and multimillionaire thought (at the time) to be in hiding outside the country and known by nearly everyone would spend her time posting links to Reddit accruing millions of comment karma

Did you know that Donald Trump had a Twitter account?

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