Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.
Kuyawa · · focus · HN ↗
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc they all have hundreds of thousands employees and even if they are not explicitly paid to astroturf, they try to be subconsciously loyal to their employer, downvoting everything that goes against their subtle wiring, and happily upvoting every new product or feature launched by their org
That's just human nature, proven in 3, 2, 1...