RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?

kept by eddie jan 06

YC-backed RevisionDojo ran astroturfing campaigns on Reddit using fake accounts, paid posts, and coordinated manipulation to promote its test prep products.

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