As a long-time (10y) user on the site, this is pretty scary to see. Reddit had been an ad incubator that trains people to do their job for a while now, the first signs of it I saw when I signed up in 2012 - probably to call it out back then even (HailCorporate was one of the first subs I joined)

My advice is to be extremely careful considering anything on the site reliable information and not just the output of an extremely effective PR machine

I have to respectfully disagree with you there.