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
Everywhere has bias, you can’t escape it. Whatever happened to don’t believe what you see on the internet.
I see your concern for truth in any scenario, and I agree validity should be a constant consideration! However, bias and astroturfing are different. Bias is the lens that we use to look at reality. Astroturfing is forcing lenses onto many others without them knowing. It is a deliberate campaign.
Any popular posts that involve a minority/enemy of right wingers doing something bad or sticking out get brigaded. A blatant example is PublicFreakout where threads are usually fairly normal unless it’s a black/arab/Indian person doing the antagonizing then pretty much all the top comments are dog or regular whistles. Similar “brigading” can happen even in a city subreddit similar to r/Canada even if they are regular users otherwise. If the post is good enough fodder the subreddit will suddenly resemble a klan meetup even if it’s usually otherwise “normal”.
ActualPublicFreakout is an alternative that doesn’t need brigading because it’s already similar to WorldNews.
4chan’s /v/ is a great example of regular heavy astroturfing
LegalAdvice. It’s literally run by cops who regularly advise people to incriminate themselves.
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.
Apparently they demodded 2 of the cops, and 2 of them are still there.
BadLegalAdvice ironically has good legal advice.
Worldnews
