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The biggest of them all is Reddit. We will know few years down the lane how much of Reddit was astroturfed by the US government given that reddit directly hired
by ShivShankaran 4y ago
The biggest of them all is Reddit. We will know few years down the lane how much of Reddit was astroturfed by the US government given that reddit directly hired ex government officials for their director level positions
Almost all of Reddit home page is now either subtle advertising or outright propaganda
- enkid 4y agoWhat do you think social media is? People post because they want you to buy into their brand. This isn't just companies. They want you to know who they are so you will buy their books, attend their show, or drum up support for them in whatever domain they are trying to advance in.
- pydry 4y agoI think it used to be better. However, any form of independent media will inevitably be seen as a threat which the rich and powerful will try to tame and exploit. If you could create a form of media which had some kind of immunity to this I'd like to think it would be pretty huge but honestly, I dont think its possible.
- xwolfi 4y agoWe keep hearing this and I keep being called a robot on reddit. I dont know man, some people have weird opinions, some facts are displeasing and journalistic incompetence does the rest. Reddit is particularly tricky to manipulate one single way because it is compatible with completely opposed political groups cohabiting. So what you call manipulation that you dislike can just as well be compensated by an exageration on the opposite side in another sub. The only thing reddit cannot do is appeased, neutral discussion but that s true of many groups where opposing sides meet.
- wuiheerfoj 4y ago>is compatible with completely opposed political groups cohabiting I don’t know what you mean by compatible here, but cohabiting opposed political groups was certainly not my experience on Reddit
- zarzavat 4y agoUnsubscribe from the default subs and follow subreddits that interest you. There is a subreddit for almost every mutually incompatible viewpoint conceivable. Reddit is a long way off from its prime but there’s still a healthy diversity of opinion there. Just not in /r/news.
- ShivShankaran 4y agoThis is why I specifically mentioned homepage which is the curated subreddits. Worldnews and news are basically almost 100% propaganda channel for the US government
- pooper 4y agoThere is no homepage. It depends on what subreddits you subscribe to and if you go to /r/popular or /r/all you can't really blame me for that.
- rat9988 4y agoNobody blames you for anything. He is just saying that reddit is seeing a lot of propaganda.
- ShivShankaran 4y agoSorry if my sentence came off as blaming you. by "homepage" I meant the default page of reddit when you are not logged in. larger subreddits like worldnews is practically a petridish for reddit algorithms to push western narratives.
- ramchip 4y agoHave you considered the possibility that some western narratives might be upvoted because they're popular with the (mostly western) audience of Reddit, and not because governments are manipulating the site?
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- lakomen 4y agoAnd if you point it out, you get banned.
- Watchwatcher 4y ago
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- ralusek 4y agoIf Reddit is a major player for astroturfing on behalf of America or the American government, it's going very poorly. There is probably no easier way to reach the front page than to assert that America is incompetent or evil.