YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

I started to notice some thing weird while using Reddit, every link post from Condé Nast owned news outlet was getting a high amount of upvotes and awards while other publications had a very normal rate of awards( usually zero, with the exception of the sponsored ones) and upvotes.

That when I started to investigate this matter till I found out about this.

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They are boosting their publications on Reddit on the major subreddits. They are trying to give their publications a advantage over all the other news outlets.

They have the ability to kill the other news outlets if they keep doing that. Avoid them as if your freedom is dependent on it.

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Ethalis@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It’s certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.
  
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  - 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Long live Beth Mole for health news!
    
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  - NeryK@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Agreed. As long as their corporate overlords do not fuck up Ars, there is no reason to avoid them.
    
    If (when ?) it becomes an AI slop-filled shell of its former self, then it will be past time to go elsewhere.
    
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- KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I’ll continue to go there. I’ve lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can’t lose another one.
  
  The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.
  
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  - b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ars technica is full of shit, too, as soon they’re even slightly off the tech trail. Even while on the tech trail they’re massively untrustworthy as soon as their owners’ interests are involved. I’ve kicked them out of my RSS reader long ago. If they really got something exciting I’ll get to know via slashdot, mastodon or feddit. Still I’m suspicious as I at least one time caught them intentionally spreading false information.
    
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- pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s great on politics too, they post things other outlets won’t.
  
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  - b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.
    
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- MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.
  
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- brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news
  
  This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news.
  
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  - frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.
    
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- lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They have very blunt takes at the space launch industry, for one.
  
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- myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  …unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…
  
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  - purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You’re online without ad blockers?
    
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.

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- cymbal_king@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Propublica is an excellent nonprofit investigative journalism organization. They have a strong track record of holding powerful companies accountable and achieving real world results/consequences. They often partner with local news organizations to help give them good content and there’s never a paywall either.
  
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  - FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes propublica is amazing. But I wouldn’t necessarily call them mainstream. They are mainstream amongst journalists, nerds, and leftists. But not really apart from that.
    
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- Thebular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m a big NPR/PBS guy, independent media is always worthwhile.
  
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  - FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    But that has direct ties to the US government. (And as we’ve seen under Trump), those ties can be abused.
    
    So I agree they are good services. But IMO they still have dodgy ties.
    
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- nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  no ethical consumption under capitalism…
  
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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You could just avoid corporate media. There’s loads of great independent journalism in the West.
  
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- considine@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Consider The Guardian’s campaign against Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite. Or their many character assassination pieces against Julian Assange. These campaigns serve the interests of the Zionist lobby and the US empire, respectively.
  
  If you are critical of modern imperialism and capitalism, then The Guardian and AP do not have good takes on many issues. Currently, The Guardian publishes articles critical of the genocide in Gaza, which is the only correct position to take on the issue. However they have served Zionist interests in the past and carried water for US warmongers.
  
  While they get on the bandwagon when critical mass gets unstoppable they also manufacture consent for empire.
  
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DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Isn’t it funny how theres always a company that nobody has ever heard of behind every big brand that everybody knows about?Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.

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- QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Conde Nast was a big name in the magazine publishing business for decades.
  
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  - TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    But not for laymen.
    
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- Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This is how the USA works now. Not just unethical companies and monopolies but super monopolies and upright evil companies. If you ever want to make yourself mad Google EssilorLuxottica, it is the largest eyeglass manufacturer, sunglass manufacturer, eyeglass retailer … and believe it or not it also owns Eyemed eye insurance. It’s not the biggest eye insurance company … yet.
  
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  - cuteness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Vertical integration that leads to self dealing like this should be considered anti competitive and illegal.
    
    Unfortunately in US healthcare it’s the norm.
    
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- TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.
  
  That is how corporations avoid antitrust lawsuits. They know what they’re doing.
  
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- dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I frankly don’t know how you have lived this long and not heard of them. This is more of you problem versus everybody else problem.
  
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- Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Heck the name of the brand doesn’t have to be the same as the name of the company.
  
  It is also standard practise to do in basically every country. It helps with liability, but it also helps when you want to sell parts of the company and can help for tax reasons as well.
  
  I have seen companies with similar structures who only have a couple of hundred thousand euro of revenue.
  
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- Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I remember in geography learning that Merlin entertainment is behind a lot of our major theme parks. Yeah it’s a thing
  
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arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Not Ars Technica!

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Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This had pretty wide awareness during the reddit api Crack down and even before that when Chinese tencent bought a stake in reddit. A lot of the reddit users from that time are aware. I would argue tencent is much much worse than Conde nast

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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”

After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount

Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself

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- ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Conde Nast didn’t make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did
  
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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
  
  Where can I read more about that?
  
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  - dexa_scantron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    There are some articles about his death linked on Wikipedia but they’re pretty just-the-facts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka
    
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- ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I was having a hard time imagining a worse reality than this one, thank you.
  
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Barberserk@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They are in turn owned by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications, even larger than Conde Nast.

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- blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s a holding company that owns conde nasty and the local paper, on Staten Island. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a wealthy conservative publishing company.
  
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  - Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “You don’t need a formal conspriacy when their interests converge.” "It’s a big club, and you’re not in it"
    
    George Carlin
    
    That being said, very likely that - like Xitter - they intentionally amplify activity that benefits their interests. We know for a fact that Reddit was founded on astroturf.
    
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grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
When I hear “Conde Nast” I think about that scandal with the Bon Appetit Youtube channel and how they were discriminating against their non-white chefs.

thewrap.com/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brownface/

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Haven’t they owned Reddit for 20 years now?

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- locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I wondered the same thing. Seems we’re getting older than the median age on here. Lol
  
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MemmingenFan923@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Test your theory by posting this on Reddit. Let’s see how long your post stays until it gets removed.

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- homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Name your sub!
  
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  - TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    todayIlearned?
    
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Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The list of who not to avoid I think is much shorter.

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- harsh3466@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Here it is.
  
  List of Who Not to Avoid:
  
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  - altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The Onion?
    
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  - Joey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    404media?
    
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Pro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My advice to people who see my post here is to spread awareness about this widely as much as they could.

They own the social media and they own the news. They are going to control people thoughts and fuck the whole journalism state if they succeeded.

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FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Why am I not surprised? I stopped having any trust in that platform when they killed 3rd party clients. I would suggest everyone to leave reddit and watch it implode from afar.

Yes, it stings. It’s a habit. You still have nice subs in there, communities that make you happy. But you’re fiddling as the ship sinks. That’s the metaphor, isn’t it?

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- homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Giving up hundreds of thousands of co-users for a few thousand is a helluva drug.
  
  I approve this message.
  
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glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Social media cooperation self-upvotes its self-authored media. Users: Surprised pikachu face. Reality: Let the circle-jerk begin.

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Prontomomo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wow, I don’t wanna be on Reddit, but I don’t hate it like this, is this how other people feel?

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YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.

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