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The Rigging Of Digg: How A Covert Mob Of Conservatives Hijacked The Web’s Top Social News Site
The Digg Patriots; what would they look like today? What if a relatively small group of power users had sway over many influential forums, and social media polls?
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Digg Patriots Wiki
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RationalWiki's article, noting this was done by around one hundred people in total.
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Digg investigates claims of conservative 'censorship'
The popular link-sharing website Digg is investigating claims that a group of the site's "influential conservative" members are systematically downgrading thousands of stories deemed to be "liberal". -
Digg Gamed by Conservative Conspiracy; How Does Digg Bury It?
A massive conspiracy to censor left-leaning political stories on Digg has been uncovered, in which tens of thousands of stories were "buried" by a right-wing group calling itself the "Digg Patriots." -
“BURY UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR WAYS”: The Digg Patriots and/as user-generated censorship
In May 2009, an ad hoc coalition of politically-conservative members of the social news site Digg collectively founded a Yahoo!Group community and mailing list,called the Digg Patriots. The Patriots were united by a shared self-identification with movement conservatism, a belief that liberal users o
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Well, I never used Digg, but I guess that makes sense. My question is, if it were an invite-only group, how was this uncovered?