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Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by xwolfi on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:19AM (#33730060)
We keep hearing this and I keep being called a robot on reddit. I dont know man, some people have weird opinions, some facts are displeasing and journalistic incompetence does the rest.

Reddit is particularly tricky to manipulate one single way because it is compatible with completely opposed political groups cohabiting. So what you call manipulation that you dislike can just as well be compensated by an exageration on the opposite side in another sub.

The only thing reddit cannot do is appeased, neutral discussion but that s true of many groups where opposing sides meet.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by wuiheerfoj on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:33AM (#33730165)
>is compatible with completely opposed political groups cohabiting

I don’t know what you mean by compatible here, but cohabiting opposed political groups was certainly not my experience on Reddit

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by zarzavat on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:41AM (#33730207)
Unsubscribe from the default subs and follow subreddits that interest you. There is a subreddit for almost every mutually incompatible viewpoint conceivable.

Reddit is a long way off from its prime but there’s still a healthy diversity of opinion there. Just not in /r/news.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by ShivShankaran on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:46AM (#33730240)
This is why I specifically mentioned homepage which is the curated subreddits. Worldnews and news are basically almost 100% propaganda channel for the US government
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by pooper on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:50AM (#33730263)
There is no homepage. It depends on what subreddits you subscribe to and if you go to /r/popular or /r/all you can't really blame me for that.
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by lakomen on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:36AM (#33730612)
There absolutely IS a homepage. The one you see in an incognito window
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by rat9988 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:13AM (#33730431)
Nobody blames you for anything. He is just saying that reddit is seeing a lot of propaganda.
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by ShivShankaran on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:23AM (#33730515)
Sorry if my sentence came off as blaming you. by "homepage" I meant the default page of reddit when you are not logged in. larger subreddits like worldnews is practically a petridish for reddit algorithms to push western narratives.
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by ramchip on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:01PM (#33737923)
Have you considered the possibility that some western narratives might be upvoted because they're popular with the (mostly western) audience of Reddit, and not because governments are manipulating the site?
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by 5e92cb50239222b on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:49AM (#33730254)
So it's a group of small echo chambers (in addition the 'main' giant one) that barely interact with one another. Same as any other social media.
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by theshrike79 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:19AM (#33730478)
/r/anime_titties/ (underscore _very_ important here) is a good source for non-US news.

They specifically ban news from US, India and China so they won't dominate the content.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by erklik on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:53AM (#33730754)
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by theshrike79 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:39AM (#33733272)
> 2.3.1 The number of paragraphs with more than a passing reference to the USA, China or India in any capacity should not exceed more than 50% of the article.
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by ShivShankaran on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:24AM (#33730522)
If you want to get really political there is almost no subreddit where you can talk about "opposing views".

Reddit outright bans and then shadow bans the admins with any opposing views.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by KptMarchewa on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:36AM (#33730610)
Oh yeah, I can see what views you call "really political".
Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by ShivShankaran on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:13AM (#33730929)
I will lay out my views here

"who are the mysterious gold buyers who bought 300 tons of gold",

"who are the mysterious buyers of oil ships to keep russian oil float",

"is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD",

"does the Ukraine-Russia war have any chance of peace"

"Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

"Why would Russia blow up it's own pipeline?"

"Are most of the non western world turning against IMF and USD global reserve"

I really don't need answers to these since the last time I asked one of this in here I was suspended for a week.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by KptMarchewa on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:29AM (#33731084)
There are subreddits for you, like https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/

Especially due to "Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

Yeah, "immense pressure from US" when you see your closest neighbors being killed by russian butchers.

Re:Meta claims US military online propaganda campaign had “l... by zarzavat on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:35AM (#33731144)
I seriously doubt that the Reddit admins have any grudge against asking “is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD?” or many others of those questions. Maybe it’s the way you ask it?

There are definitely things that you can’t say on Reddit. But these questions are quite tame.