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A user named Ole Ole Olson at The Public Record has posted an article detailing extensive manipulation of the link sharing social media site Digg.com by multiple groups of conservative, right-wing individuals as uncovered by a team of investigators.
The Rigging Of Digg
How A Covert Mob Of Conservatives Hijacked The Web's Top Social News Site
By creation of multiple accounts, full-spectrum undermining and attacks against progressive Digg users, intentional and coordinated deception, "false flag" operations to draw criticism of liberal viewpoints, and a variety of other sophisticated methods several groups of conservative users have conspired to elevate the visibility of right-wing links and topics, bury or obscure progressive posts, and defame progressive users and eliminate their posts regardless of topic.
A number of independent web sites and mailing lists are used to coordinate the manipulations by these groups. As a result there is extensive documentation of their conversations and actions. Here is a small sampling of the comments:
To all of our new group members: We are really happy you have joined us at DiggPatriots! Please remember this is a group that we are trying to keep below the radar. Please do not disclose this group's existence to anyone outside the group on Digg or elsewhere. The longer we can keep this group on the down low, the better. I know you probably aready knew that, but I wanted to make sure we are all on the same page as far as the keeping this group from being exposed to the public.
-Ron AKA ChronicColonic
We should make it our sacred mission to gang-bang this liberal bitch.
I reported DDRSkata. I also told a fib and I stated I was African-American. Report to Digg: "As a conservative African-American, I get deeply offended when someone refers to one of my conservative sisters and other conservative African-Americans as, 'Beulahs and Uncle Toms'. Had I been white, and had used the terms, 'Fag or Nigger', I could expect to be banned from digg in a very swift fashion. I trust you will do right by the people of color who use digg."
I learned of this via Metafilter. See also this corroborating comment by Metafilter user Rhaomi.
