Conservative Censorship On Digg
Oleoleolson at AlterNet blew the lid off of a huge story about a ring of conservative Diggers that were burying stories from liberal sites and targeting specific users to be banned from Digg:
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…
A group of nearly one hundred conservatives have banded together on a Yahoo Group called Digg Patriots (DP), and a companion site at coRanks to issue bury orders and discuss strategies to censor Digg and other social media websites. DP was founded on 21 May 2009. Since then, over 40,000 posts have been logged at a steady rate of around 3000-4000 per month. The “Patriots” Network on coRank is a tool to submit Diggs to a group list as opposed to sending an e-mail every time. It also has some tools that make submitting to the list as easy as clicking on a bookmark. The DP membership includes the following Digg users (among others):
See the full story: Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
See Also: Right-Wing Group Conspiring to Control Digg Uncovered, Investigation reveals massive conservative censoring of Digg, Conservatives cheat to win, and Right wing pressure groups game Digg to censor liberals.
