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People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit.
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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.
I think your issue should be with Reddit moderators not Ars.
ProPublica happily allows Ars to republish their stories by disclosing the source:
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/happy-birthday-creative-commons
Ars discloses the source compliantly:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care
ProPublica literally thanks Ars above for spreading their stories.
The Ars headline (with its subheading) also says a lot more. So it's just ... going to get more upvotes, it's better bait.
As for the second article getting squashed... Again Reddit moderators.
This looks like a nonsensical conspiracy theory ... ProPublica was not suppressed or harmed. Ars literally spread their exact story. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if more people read the story because they see "ArsTechnica" and assume good content (because Ars has a super nice website and regularly has really good journalism on it).