My Previous Post (Read it first, as this post might not make sense to you, without reading the previous post first)
I saw a lot of people defending Ars Technica in my previous post. Here is a simple proof that they are an evil company:
ProPublica Posts:
Ars Technica post:
As it can be seen here, the original source of the info/Investigation was Propublica and even in terms of the story cover photo, Propublica used a custom cover.
Yet, despite all of that, as expected Reddit manipulated upvotes to boost the Ars Technica story and even deleted the second ProPublica story from Reddit.
Journalism will be fucked up, because of Condé Nast and their parent company manipulation.
In case it isn’t clear, the Ars Technica post is expected to hit the front page, while the ProPublica ones are expected to die, despite being the original source of the info.
To start Condemned Nast sucks.
But ProPublica partners with arstechnica, there must be a reason for that. Articles that originate from ProPublica are given full credit on arstechnica, this isn’t like the Verge rewriting a few sentences then saying as reported by at the end.
Scharon Harding has also done a good job reporting on Reddit, here’s a post about the API nonsense.
With this quote
While I can believe that Conde Nast manipulates Reddit, I don’t believe this is anti ProPublica
Agree 100%, Ars Technica syndicates those stories (they do it for Wired and FT stories too), so they paid ProPublica to republish the story and give full credit to them.
Ars also has traditionally operated very independently of Condé Nast, and their authors, editors, and staff are incredibly active and as up front as possible in their comments and forums. Perhaps Conde is doing something shady, but if so I have decent faith that Ars isn’t in on it.