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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReddit Mods Bury Greenwald's Story on GCHQ/NSA Internet Tactics
I thought this incident was pretty interesting. News aggregators like Reddit are just the sort of place you might expect to find the types of manipulation described in Greenwald's article.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/11344026358/reddit-mods-bury-glenn-greenwalds-story-gchqnsa-use-internet-to-destroy-reputations.shtml
"Last night, the original article from firstlook.org was taken down and tagged as "not appropriate subreddit." Meanwhile, another copy of the story was allowed to rise, despite having an editorialized title. Later, the version that had been taken down--which was older and had fewer upvotes because it had been removed--was put back up and the younger version with more upvotes was removed, allegedly because the topic was "already covered."
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)The kind of manipulation Greenwald's item described grabs a broad spectrum of internet eyeballs and is a great value for the dollar.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)bobduca
(1,763 posts)where stories never make their way to the home page.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid