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Comment by chillwaves | Hacker News Reader

What if one side is more reality based than the other? Which certainly has to be the case, both sides would not have exactly equal representation of reality based facts.

So your graph is not very helpful unless you want to pretend the Washington Post and New York times are just leftist versions of Breitbart.

Honestly do not see the point or value in what you have done.

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I wanted to see "which news sites conservative-leaning and liberal-leaning redditors use to support their respective narratives". I think my graph helped me find out. Nowhere did I mention anything about truthfulness.

Well here's an interesting observation: the "right" subreddit cites some sources that the "left" subreddit cites, but not vice versa. For example, NYT and Politico appear near the tail of the "right" sub's sources and near the head of the "left" sub's sources, but none of the "right" sub's sources appear anywhere in the "left" sub's sources.

So, assuming that NYT and Politico are left-leaning, it would appear that the "right" sub links to its opponents' views, while the "left" sub does not.

The implications of this are left to the reader.

The conservative subreddit links to archive.us (notice it is 2nd on the list) instead of the NYT, WaPo, etc. because they do not want those news orgs to capitalize from traffic it would be sending there; instead they send their massive conservative user base to archive. (i suppose this behavior might be another interesting observation?)

This is not just because of traffic, but to get the original story. There have been plenty of times where the story was changed and edited after the initial post.

Also, I think the majority of journalism harbors a liberal bias. So any basic analysis of aggregate news links would likely lean liberal.

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