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This is noticeable on a number of the social media sites like reddit or digg. For reddit, most of the links are Pro-Obama and anti-Romney. Factoring in that peo
by Agustus 14y ago
This is noticeable on a number of the social media sites like reddit or digg. For reddit, most of the links are Pro-Obama and anti-Romney. Factoring in that people know good ranges of when to post to reddit, social manipulation on the site should be easy.
The problem is this is all one-use until failure ideas. If the socially manipulated realm gives the appearance of not being reality individuals will search for truth or further bury themselves in a chamber. Those seeking truth will then need to be found in the new media and a new program developed.
- brown9-2 14y agoAre you saying that you think the pro or anti stance of Reddit is due to manipulation, rather than demographics?
- mrab 14y agoI've seen on numerous occasions, an anti-conservative post miraculously parked on the front page above other posts that have twice the upvotes, twice the comments and submitted more recently. If that isn't direct manipulation, then their algo for front page content is completely backwards.
- Agustus 14y agoThere is not a think, it is an overall weariness of issues. Reddit founders admitted to creating their content originally when starting up the site. While not a massive manipulation, they pretended to be original posters (with separate user names) when it was not. The key points here are to take everything with a grain of salt. There are known organizations developing user names on all sorts of forums and social media sites and selling their utilization to people.