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Comment on YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit.

jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m not seeing the evidence that you are claiming.

There are many reasons that unpaid volunteer mods delete content, including reposts, issues with the OP, etc.

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Pro@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
ProPublica used Original custom made cover photo+ they did the whole investigation.

Ars Technica used stock photo and paraphrased some of the info.

Despite that, the undeleted ProPublica post got about 80 Upvotes in 3 hours. The Ars Technica one got about 120 in less than about 50 mins.

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- MisanthropiCynic@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  But doesn’t that possibly speak as much to people wanting to read something from a website with which they are more familiar with a more streamlined approach at providing the information?
  
  There are plenty of features I see that run thousands of words that I don’t have time to read so I just catch a one or two paragraph summary posted somewhere else. Basically stealing the headline. It’s what journalism is now. Everyone just steals and uses it as clickbait. WhatsApp is on the top of YouTube suggestions for me even though I don’t subscribe
  
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