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- cross-posted to:
- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
- reddit@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.
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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If I had a time machine, I would try to find a way to stop Reagan rather than Hitler.
I think other time travelers will cover Hitler, so I think we should diversify our efforts in stopping other evil bastards around the world.
What if Hitler turned out the way he did because he was traumatized by all the time travelers who tried to kill him when he was a little boy?
Call me crazy, but I think some of the biggest fucking bastards in human history simply needed someone to listen to them and help them learn how to self-regulate their emotions as children.
They’re all so consistently bitter and unhappy narcissists, and they drive away their loved ones because they have no idea how to listen and introspect. They also always try to lure others in with money because that’s what the only things they personally care about.
When someone criticizes my behavior, I legitimate think about it and I ask them what I could do differently that would make them happier to be around me, and I take that shit seriously even if it hurts to hear.
Sometimes it’s completely bogus, but if it matters to them, it matters to me, and that’s all that matters.
Fundamentally I think anger, hate and evil deeds are driven by fear and past wounds. But saying such things on social media can get you accused of condoning evil, “giving nazis a pass,” or whatever. People aren’t willing to think about what you’re saying until they decide if you’re wearing a white hat not a black hat.
I mean, I have zero fucking empathy for Trump or Elon because they are fucking nazis and there needs to be extremely severe punitive measures taken against them because that is the only consequence wealthy narcissists understand.
I understand why they are that way, it does not mean they just get a pass for it.
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Most of us don’t even read the articles.
(yes, you, scrolling by right now, did you read it? I didn’t think so.)
Side reminder: this is not reddit, this is lemmy; we’re not browsing reddit. But whatever you saying still holds true.
I agree. In fact, it’s possible that oxygen molecules in our lungs right now were once breathed by Hitler. The exact same air that kept him alive, enabling genocide, is literally keeping us alive! We must boycott ourselves for moral purity!
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.
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.
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.
Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.
That is how corporations avoid antitrust lawsuits. They know what they’re doing.
Conde Nast was a big name in the magazine publishing business for decades.
But not for laymen.
But for laywomen 🤣!
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.
Vertical integration that leads to self dealing like this should be considered anti competitive and illegal.
Unfortunately in US healthcare it’s the norm.
companies shouldn’t have limits on how far they can grow, and vertical integration is almost impossible to regulate as it’s just manufacturing a product from start to finish.
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It’s the same concept as car dealerships having loans and being owned (or franchise things) by the car company.
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Monopolies aren’t your friend.
The US does operate on the principle that companies should actually have limits on how far they can grow. This was set forth in the Sherman Act of 1890. The fact that it was not there at the founding of the country, embedded in the constitution, is probably a contributing factor on why the US is falling into corruption today. The main cause is of course political parties, which should have been made illegal. George Washington predicted our current future in his exit speech when he said that political parties would be the downfall of the US … he was right.
I don’t know if it applies to this or not, but Reddit top posts absolutely love Newsweek, which is a garbage clickbait, pump and dump articles as fast as possible, and now seeing this, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s something going on.
Actually, most of those articles are posted by newsweek’s official reddit account.
Not really, I’ve already blocked the newsweek reddit account and there’s plenty of other accounts posting newsweek all the time, it’s very sus.
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.
https://www.thewrap.com/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brownface/
Haven’t they owned Reddit for 20 years now?
I wondered the same thing. Seems we’re getting older than the median age on here. Lol
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
They are both threat actors from a peasant’s perspective
Wow, I don’t wanna be on Reddit, but I don’t hate it like this, is this how other people feel?
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?
Giving up hundreds of thousands of co-users for a few thousand is a helluva drug.
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They are in turn owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications, even larger than Conde Nast.
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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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
Conde Nast didn’t make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did
run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
Where can I read more about that?
There are some articles about his death linked on Wikipedia but they’re pretty just-the-facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka
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The list of who not to avoid I think is much shorter.
Here it is.
List of Who Not to Avoid:
The Onion?
Well they have become less satirical than reality so…now I don’t know what to do.
404media?
Good luck finding media now owned by some evil corporation or state.
404media is pretty solid, for what it’s worth.
Agreed. 404Media has been extremely good at covering anything from random niche communities to major data leaks. The only thing stopping me from becoming a paying member of their work is the (in my opinion, high) $100/yr price tag.
I’d also recommend following independent journalists like Ken Klippenstein. He does good work, and frequently releases documents that the rest of the media refuses to publish more than snippets of.
Social media cooperation self-upvotes its self-authored media. Users: Surprised pikachu face. Reality: Let the circle-jerk begin.
