Your argument about reddit doesn't really hold up, they can post data embedded into images or illegal materials in photos or videos.
Malware can extract data from embedded metadata from media, there's even video by benn jordan about it.
Malware can extract data from embedded metadata from media, there's even video by benn jordan about it.
No, at worst they could conduct an astroturf campaign and manipulate the overton window. I suspect that Noam Chomsky attains correctness by volume and by forgetting the times he was wrong, but the whole "manufactured consent" concept looks prescient.