They are.

We caught "community builders" making disingenuous posts trying to pass reposted/translated content as OC to generate engagement. After getting caught doing so with their admin accounts they tried again using normal users.

They also had the bright idea to spam users via DM using a poorly templated message (verbatim "insert u/USERNAME") to promote localized copies of low-quality subs (the kind of trash you see on r/all).

This would be a weirdly clumsy approach for Reddit to take. I don't know whether they're too ethical to do something like this, but surely they're too competent to do it in such a silly way. Simplest explanation is someone else did it, perhaps to frame Reddit or perhaps for a more boring spambot-related reason.

I am unable to watch this on my phone.

It says "either you watch this page in the official reddit app or not at all".

> Unreviewed content

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Reddit is trying so hard to keep this under control.

It's not even a popular comment? I think this is just normal spambot behavior, picking up a random phrase that's in a hot topic and running with it for a bit.