People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit. : reddit

People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit. (programming.dev)

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My Previous Post (Read it first, as this post might not make sense to you, without reading the previous post first)

I saw a lot of people defending Ars Technica in my previous post. Here is a simple proof that they are an evil company:

ProPublica Posts:

Ars Technica post:

As it can be seen here, the original source of the info/Investigation was Propublica and even in terms of the story cover photo, Propublica used a custom cover.

Yet, despite all of that, as expected Reddit manipulated upvotes to boost the Ars Technica story and even deleted the second ProPublica story from Reddit.

Journalism will be fucked up, because of Condé Nast and their parent company manipulation.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In case it isn't clear, the Ars Technica post is expected to hit the front page, while the ProPublica ones are expected to die, despite being the original source of the info.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

To start Condemned Nast sucks.

But ProPublica partners with arstechnica, there must be a reason for that. Articles that originate from ProPublica are given full credit on arstechnica, this isn't like the Verge rewriting a few sentences then saying as reported by at the end.

Scharon Harding has also done a good job reporting on Reddit, here's a post about the API nonsense.

With this quote

Reddit's sudden rollout of high prices is a needlessly painful way of reminding the community who makes the rules

While I can believe that Conde Nast manipulates Reddit, I don't believe this is anti ProPublica

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Agree 100%, Ars Technica syndicates those stories (they do it for Wired and FT stories too), so they paid ProPublica to republish the story and give full credit to them.

Ars also has traditionally operated very independently of Condé Nast, and their authors, editors, and staff are incredibly active and as up front as possible in their comments and forums. Perhaps Conde is doing something shady, but if so I have decent faith that Ars isn't in on it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is just how the media space works. It was always this way and it relied on peasants not noticing.

Most people already know that top is essentially AstroTurfed by whoever paying that day.

But we still get into that comment section and get j to anywya bc we are stupid and we think we can ruined the OP, but if you say anything they payor doesnt like you will get censored.

I bet thats why most people are here now lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck Reddit

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