HivemindBuster

I feel like you're focusing explicitly on corporations/marketing firms - but completely ignoring the role of obsessive ideologues. It's fairly easy to create multiple accounts, you can use proxies/vpn etc.. if necessary - you don't NEED to spend hundreds of dollars to do this. I'd be more worried about ideologues obsessed with pushing an agenda on reddit, rather than marketing firms. Why did you choose to limit the potential for manipulation only from paid agencies? This will completely skew the discussion on reddit so that anything remotely pro 'establishment' (such as something that might be complementary to anything connected to government or a business) will be likely met with massive amounts of unwarranted suspicion and accusations of shilling, while sensationalist 'anti-establishment' posts won't meet any suspicion, when they could just have easily been manipulated from places like 4chan?

Thanks for the prompt response. I don't think you were deliberately pushing an agenda. However I fear you've (unintentionally) empowered the people that will immediately accuse anyone of being a "shill" simply for disagreeing with them - these people were a HUGE problem on reddit, creating a toxic atmosphere and skewing the discussion in their favour (which tends to lean alt-right, unfortunately) - now it may get even worse. As I said, I'm sure you didn't intend for it to happen - but I do hope you might do another video proving that it can arise from unpaid ideologues as well, at some point in the future, so as to restore balance. Thanks again for responding!

and whose votes aren't tallied until July.

It's almost as if people/journalists/researchers can be very confident as to who these delegates will choose.

That these AP reporters allowed them to speak anonymously compounds this journalistic sin.

That's literally how journalism works, that's not sinful in the least.

There are some who think this affected turnout for Sanders

Why would it affect it any more than Clinton's?