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Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 23d ago

They're trying to make left wing people leave the site. It's become very clear that sites like Reddit and old Twitter were capable of being the commissions platform for revolutions. Like the Arab spring, which is probably why they're trying to get left wing people ostracized and isolated.

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u/seamonkeypenguin 22d ago

This is my thought about Reddit and Meta. Right-wing stuff gets amplified, left-wing users get roadblocked repeatedly, and thus the user base gets more conservative. Fence sitters end up exposed to only one narrative and become right-wingers.

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u/ILikeHistoryTooMuch 22d ago

If you think right wing stuff is getting amplified on Reddit you’re blind