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I started to notice some thing weird while using Reddit, every link post from Condé Nast owned news outlet was getting a high amount of upvotes and awards while other publications had a very normal rate of awards( usually zero, with the exception of the sponsored ones) and upvotes.

That when I started to investigate this matter till I found out about this.

They are boosting their publications on Reddit on the major subreddits. They are trying to give their publications a advantage over all the other news outlets.

They have the ability to kill the other news outlets if they keep doing that. Avoid them as if your freedom is dependent on it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sadge, Ars Technica 😢

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a big NPR/PBS guy, independent media is always worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But that has direct ties to the US government. (And as we’ve seen under Trump), those ties can be abused.

So I agree they are good services. But IMO they still have dodgy ties.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a holding company that owns conde nasty and the local paper, on Staten Island. It's not a conspiracy. It's a wealthy conservative publishing company.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haven't they owned Reddit for 20 years now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I wondered the same thing. Seems we’re getting older than the median age on here. Lol

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Isn't it funny how theres always a company that nobody has ever heard of behind every big brand that everybody knows about?Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is how the USA works now. Not just unethical companies and monopolies but super monopolies and upright evil companies. If you ever want to make yourself mad Google EssilorLuxottica, it is the largest eyeglass manufacturer, sunglass manufacturer, eyeglass retailer ... and believe it or not it also owns Eyemed eye insurance. It's not the biggest eye insurance company ... yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Vertical integration that leads to self dealing like this should be considered anti competitive and illegal.

Unfortunately in US healthcare it’s the norm.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Heck the name of the brand doesn't have to be the same as the name of the company.

It is also standard practise to do in basically every country. It helps with liability, but it also helps when you want to sell parts of the company and can help for tax reasons as well.

I have seen companies with similar structures who only have a couple of hundred thousand euro of revenue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I remember in geography learning that Merlin entertainment is behind a lot of our major theme parks. Yeah it's a thing

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago

I frankly don’t know how you have lived this long and not heard of them. This is more of you problem versus everybody else problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.

That is how corporations avoid antitrust lawsuits. They know what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Conde Nast was a big name in the magazine publishing business for decades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

But for laywomen 🤣!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

When I hear "Conde Nast" I think about that scandal with the Bon Appetit Youtube channel and how they were discriminating against their non-white chefs.

https://www.thewrap.com/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brownface/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”

After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount

Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Conde Nast didn't make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself

Where can I read more about that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

There are some articles about his death linked on Wikipedia but they're pretty just-the-facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I was having a hard time imagining a worse reality than this one, thank you.

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