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Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R... by at-fates-hands on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:45PM (#23431450)
> It was by far the largest online conservative community, and it funneled people into even more extreme communities.

a) This is such a stretch and you have no evidence to support your claim.

b) I'm pretty conservative and know a large number of conservatives and exactly none of the people I know even like Reddit, or consider it a viable "conservative community" at all.

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Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R... by dredmorbius on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:44PM (#23432228)
There is a surprisingly large literature of academic literature on Reddit an TD specifically, at least some of which mentions radicalisation, though I've yet to find specific bits.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=reddit%20the_donald&btn...

Work elsewhere certainly expresses and substantiates that narrative: Kate Starbird, Renee DiResta, Samuel Wooley, Kara Swisher, Zynep Tufekci, among others.

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