Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months?

https://lemm.ee/post/26447516

Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? - lemm.ee

If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

Election is coming up, all Russian bots
It probably has a lot to do with their IPO as well. They want to look like they are doing well ahead of that.