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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by dogruck on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:12PM (#15234961)
I find that NYT comments accurately reflect the heavily liberal bias of NYT's reporting. Although I don't think that's wrong, I think there's room for constructive debate about the articles -- perhaps hosted on a different site.
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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by memeCrasher on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:27AM (#15235987)
It's not like it'd be difficult for NYT to have whitelisted commentator accounts run by NYT editors to game their own comment/vote system and drive a false consensus for readers.

Modern media do this every day already with their yellow-journalist hit pieces, biased comments to drive a narrative aren't even a skip away from that.

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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by creaghpatr on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:12AM (#15238994)
The thing is that commenting on NYT is limited to paying subscribers so it's not like they need to defend from outside 'raids'.

Then again, I would be shocked if PACs of all flavors didn't have pay groups of subscribers to crash the comments sections of the most prominent publications (NYT, WSJ, etc). Especially during the primaries last year. When you consider the amount of traffic they get, the top comment is valuable thought capital real estate during election season.

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