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This is exactly what happens when algorithms tailor what people see on their newsfeed. They will push narratives.

One of the main reasons I prefer Reddit is the existence of r/All. Provides a very balanced view

If you think Reddit isn’t highly curated too, you’re wrong. Perhaps you could make that argument 10 years ago but no longer. In the last few years Reddit has taken on hundreds of millions of dollars of funding to morph the site into a more mainstream advertiser-friendly offering. They’ve silenced lots of controversial communities by outright banning them or neutered them with “quarantines”. Over the years, Reddit has succeeded at pushing out people who don’t have palatable opinions and retained a core base of advertiser-friendly true believers. “Advertiser-friendly” in the contemporary era means “left-leaning with no reservations“. This is about the furthest thing you can get from a “balanced view”.

Curated sure.

Tailored to individual tastes - absolutely not

Kinda like a newspaper

This is an absurd statement. Reddit is by far the most effectively gamed and manipulated social media platform that exists. There’s countless examples of how powerful mods are on Reddit on shaping narratives.

reddit is one of the absolutely most gamed social media on the internet. Don't forget that the "head of content" that was hired few years back is from NATO with no technical background. Reddit is on harcore mode right now deleting entire subreddits and permabanning people that even slightly critique NATO or Ukraine.

/r/all is nauseatingly full of "russia bad, ukraine good" with mindless flinging of feces.

Yall be blaming facebook but reddit is the real snake in the grass.

I would suggest watching Death of Stalin (2018) to understand why Russia bad

Of course russia is bad. it's an absolute corrupt hellhole, I know that. My point is that so is Ukraine. Not sure why we are taking sides in a war between two former soviet republics both run by corrupt oligarchs

Because one is the attacker and the other one is the attacked?

Reddit is a typical western media that promotes corresponding world view.

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