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ciarannolan | 5 years ago

> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

+1

It's not even subtle anymore. You can predict with 99% accuracy the ideology of any political statements in content on the first 10 pages of r/all. It's a 52M daily user echo chamber.

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brink|5 years ago

And anyone with a dissenting opinion is chased off of the site. I had to stop using it over the staggering amount of groupthink and censorship.

Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

ciarannolan|5 years ago

> Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

Didn't liberals too?

zjaffee|5 years ago

Yup, basically anything either left or right of center is kicked off the platform. And even then they're very pick and choosey over that stuff.

this_user|5 years ago

Reddit has increasingly become the 21st century equivalent of a tabloid: nudity, misinformation, and sensationalised bullshit