Has anyone else noticed how propaganda-ish /r/politicaldiscussion has become?
Yesterday a post named "Poltifact States That Clinton's Claim That Her Email Server Was Allowed Is False" was removed. The moderator left this note;
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The post was entirely polite, objective, had nothing to do with meta discussion, and had made for some good discussion. Here's the deleted thread. Here's a cached version to see what the OP looked like.
Now this is already strange enough -- it's not like they have a problem with Politifact. Just the other day there was a very popular thread called "Politifact finds allegations of fraud and misconduct at Nevada Democratic convention unfounded", i.e. a Politifact finding critical of Bernie Sanders. (No mod action.) But random removals like this happens accidentally all the time, so it's probably not a big deal, right?
Well, no, because it's absolutely not a singular event. Posts criticizing the establishment has been removed from the sub for weeks, maybe months;
All have similarly awful mod explanations. As an example, the last was was titled
"State Dept. Inspector General issued a report highly critical of State Dept. e-mail practices today, indicating Hillary Clinton as negligent. Even if she doesn't get indicted, will Clinton's handling of this issue continue to affect the race?",
and the mod removal post says;
Do not use derogatory, demeaning, or otherwise inflammatory titles.
Kind of ridiculous, right?
These are just the ones I've seen. I don't spend much time on the sub anymore because of this and an increasingly absurd pro-Clinton faction, so I'm sure there's a bunch others I haven't noticed. Just go to the front page of the sub right now; not a single article critical of Clinton, a bunch against Trump and some against Sanders.
It could be simple bias, could be Correct the Record, could be something else entirely. But the sub has some 80 000 subscribers and is obviously being influenced. So... Thoughts?
ここには何もないようです