<story><title>Reddit is being funded by a fake company?</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/reddit_is_being_funded_by_a_fake_company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage.  Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016.  They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyanydeez</author><text>You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;R&amp;#x2F;the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re pro free speech you&amp;#x27;ll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit is being funded by a fake company?</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/reddit_is_being_funded_by_a_fake_company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage.  Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016.  They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fartcannon</author><text>Yeah, and while it can be helpful to get answers to things when google fails (which is nearly always nowadays), there&amp;#x27;s so much astroturfing and shilling that those answers are often worthless.</text></comment>