Digg.com Undermined by Conservative Dirty Tricks
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(examiner.com August 6th, 2010 7:06 am PT)
-Social media site Digg has been the victim of massive fraud perpetrated by renegade conservatives out to game the popular link-sharing website. Digg is currently investigating claims of conservative censorship and dirty tricks, as a group of users known as "Digg Patriots" have been systematically downgrading progressive stories, effectively burying a majority of liberal leaning stories.
The six-year-old social bookmarking website ranks submitted web content by the number of times they are ranked up or down. Popular items, those receiving the most "Diggs" and least attempts to "Bury", are voted onto the Digg homepage, and can generate significant amounts of traffic for external websites. Digg had 7.6 million unique visitors in June this year, according to figures from analytics firm Compete.
AlterNet reports:
A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.
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http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-portland/digg-scandal-conservative-dirty-...
-Social media site Digg has been the victim of massive fraud perpetrated by renegade conservatives out to game the popular link-sharing website. Digg is currently investigating claims of conservative censorship and dirty tricks, as a group of users known as "Digg Patriots" have been systematically downgrading progressive stories, effectively burying a majority of liberal leaning stories.
The six-year-old social bookmarking website ranks submitted web content by the number of times they are ranked up or down. Popular items, those receiving the most "Diggs" and least attempts to "Bury", are voted onto the Digg homepage, and can generate significant amounts of traffic for external websites. Digg had 7.6 million unique visitors in June this year, according to figures from analytics firm Compete.
AlterNet reports:
A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.
read more
http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-portland/digg-scandal-conservative-dirty-...
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