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What are some astroturfed or biased online spaces (ie. subreddits) that newcomers would not know about?

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Where the bias isn’t obvious until you spend time on them.

The first examples I can think of are r/Canada and r/WorldNews

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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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LegalAdvice. It’s literally run by cops who regularly advise people to incriminate themselves.

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weariedfae@lemmy.world
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Whaaaaa? That’s crazy. I use to read it on the reg years ago but fell off long before the June exodus. Has this always been the case? I feel like this maybe wasn’t the case back in the heydey (Tree Law!) but IANAL and was there for the entertainment.

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Apparently they demodded 2 of the cops, and 2 of them are still there.

BadLegalAdvice ironically has good legal advice.

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