[blog.reddit.com - 08 May 2013] Reddit admins post traffic information. 'Eglin Air Force Base, FL' is listed as "Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)"
Google demotes its own Chrome browser search rankings after site is caught paying bloggers to hype it
Google is to manually 'demote' its Chrome browser - making it appear lower in searches Move comes after site paid bloggers to hype Chrome Move will see Chrome rank lower for two months Chrome predicted to overtake Internet Explorer in 2012
Microsoft pulls the plug on paid IE social-media promotional campaign
Summary: Microsoft Internet Explorer officials are attempting to distance themselves from a paid social-media effort by an advocate marketing company meant to promote Microsoft's IE browser.
Yelp deems 20% of user reviews ‘suspicious’ A study of flagged write-ups shows how some try to game the system
The office of New York’s Attorney General announced Monday that it fined businesses over $350,000 for generating phony reviews online. Consumers are right to be suspicious of online product, restaurant, and hotel reviews: According to a new report -- and the site itself -- up to 25% of all reviews posted on Yelp YELP +0.08% are “suspicious” if not fraudulent.
This Is How Comcast Is Astroturfing the Net Neutrality Issue
By its own admission, Comcast is working with think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute. Fellows at the Institute are printing op-eds all throughout the media in support of killing Net neutrality--without disclosing the think tank's ties to Comcast.
16-year-old gets a visit from the FBI for making a video that details how the United States is turning into a police state. “They wanted me to be an informant, to possibly put my life in danger, to help them arrest and gain intel on occupy protesters and hackers”
Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data When it comes to surveillance rules, some US people are more equal than others.
Project Camelot was a social scienceresearch project of the United StatesArmy that started in 1964 and was cancelled after congressional hearings in 1965. The goal of the project was to assess the causes of conflict between national groups, to anticipate social breakdown and provide eventual solutions. The proposal caused much controversy among social scientists, many of whom voiced concerns that such a study was in conflict with their professional ethics.
Chile was to be the test case for the project, but Claudio Bunster was alerted almost immediately to its possible military nature when Johan Galtung showed him a letter from the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) inviting him to a seminar to discuss the project in 1966 at the American University in Washington DC. The seminar was actually held in the summer of 1965 but by then the initial exploratory mission to study the feasibility of running such a project was being phased out and the project itself was officially cancelled on July 8, 1965.
The project's purpose was described by the army as follows:
The creator of /r/trees used the stylesheet to steal money from reddit inc., used a fake non-profit to steal money from redditors, and is actively censoring all discussion on the topic
Redditors uncover how mods of r/technology and r/wtf censor and have been censoring many other anti-Google and anti-Samsung submissions: The previously linked posts have been deleted
Smartwatch subreddit /r/pebble throws a censorship tantrum after mods (some of which work at Pebble) remove leaks about the new version of their watch before the official company announcement. Calls for removal of Pebble employees and starting a new subreddit abound.
There appears to be a cabal of high-karma "power users" who are using private subreddits and bots to game both the comment karma system and the reddit trophy system.
I have identified a list of keywords that are banned from /r/technology. Putting one in the title of a post will result in that post not showing up in the feed.
Hi /r/news, how are you? We are preparing a list of "banned domains" to have a bot automatically remove as frequent sources of inappropriate submissions. Post your suggestions, as well as any other comments or questions about /r/news moderation.
[#35|+888|206] Redditor BashCo calls out a false claim by Reddit Admin Deimorz that nobody is using voting to suggest support for the recent changes to voting on the site
Attack of the Russian Troll Army: Russia’s campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message on the comments section of top American websites.
Wikipedia honcho caught in scandal quits, defends paid edits
High-placed editors at Wikipedia's U.K. site were caught in a simmering paid-PR scandal. After news broke, one resignation and a little backpedaling has done little to solve the problem.
(Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.
Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress
Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".
A political battle has broken out on Wikipedia over an entry relating to the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, with the Russian government reportedly removing sections which accuse it of providing "terrorists" with missiles that were used to down the civilian airliner
TIL that the US created and still runs the Office of Strategic Influence to psychologically influence its population to support the War on Terror through propaganda
How The UK Government ‘Secretly’ Influenced Its Citizens’ Behaviours
Can governments influence the decisions and actions of their citizens without the public’s conscious knowledge? Since 2010, the U.K. government has had a taskforce, nicknamed the “Nudge Unit”, which utilises behavioural economics to come up with policies that can "encourage and enable people to make better choices for themselves."
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Wikileaks GI files reveal Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian consulted with Stratfor, the Intelligence firm.
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1l444l/wikileaks_gi_files_reveal_reddit_cofounder_alexis/
Reddit co-founder sought work with shadowy intelligence firm, WikiLeaks reveals
http://rt.com/usa/stratfor-reddit-ohanian-intelligence-work-029/
https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=antique+jetpack&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult
Reddit is censoring the recent wikileaks leak about Alexis Ohanian consulting with stratfor Intelligence Firm.
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1l4aiq/reddit_is_censoring_the_recent_wikileaks_leak/
How Is It That A Random Comment On Reddit Leads To Your Friend Getting Tracked By The FBI? | Techdirt
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/drgp9/how_is_it_that_a_random_comment_on_reddit_leads/
Delaware Attorney General Throws Subpoeana At Reddit Over Comment On Photo Of Two People Having Sex Behind A Dumpster
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140623/04094727654/delaware-attorney-general-throws-subpoeana-reddit-over-comment-photo-two-people-having-sex-behind-dumpster.shtml
Police to Infiltrate College Students via Reddit, OP accidentally relies to self
http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2ezkmp/police_to_infiltrate_college_students_via_reddit/
Reddit meme ‘murder confession’ leads to FBI involvement
http://rt.com/news/reddit-confession-fbi-investigation-536/
Confirmed: Laurelai is an FBI informant
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/qu0mp/confirmed_laurelai_is_an_fbi_informant/
Laurelai gets caught abusing her mod powers in another subreddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/qnc24/laurelai_gets_caught_abusing_her_mod_powers_in/
/u/Laurelai forgets to switch accounts and reveals that they are still a mod of /r/OccupyWallStreet using the sockpuppet /u/OccupyWallStreet
http://www.reddit.com/r/NolibsWatch/comments/v74sk/ulaurelai_forgets_to_switch_accounts_and_reveals/
[blog.reddit.com - 08 May 2013] Reddit admins post traffic information. 'Eglin Air Force Base, FL' is listed as "Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)"
http://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryConspiracy/comments/1fcr86/blogredditcom_08_may_2013_reddit_admins_post/
US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies
Reddit, Imgur and Twitch team up as 'Derp' for social data research
The alliance will offer data to universities, offering academics access to information to promote cross-platform study
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/18/reddit-imgur-twitch-derp-social-data
Google expands definition of 'news,' adds Reddit to search results
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/06/google-adds-reddit-to-news-search/