Is Digg Going Political

May 5th, 2007 by Michael Gray in Social Media

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Traditionally Digg hasn’t been centered around politics but the upcoming page on Saturday May 5th about 9am EST showed a pretty strong political bias.

Digg Goes Political?Click to Enlarge

Could be it’s what’s on everybody’s mind, but I doubt it. It could be a whole bunch of people just figured out how easy it is to manipulate Digg with the bury feature, eliminating almost every non political story that’s on deck.

Interesting times ahead for the Diggnation …

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10 Responses to “Is Digg Going Political”

  1. Chris Winfield Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 11:57 am

    Or as I might have heard…

    It could also be that Ron Paul, Mike Gravel (et al) and their campaign staffs are leveraging all their little interns and digging like crazy.

  2. Michael Gray Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    oh the irony of knowing my tax dollars are being spent paying interns to spam digg votes

  3. darfur Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Buddy, lay off the digg. We don’t care. All you do is rehash digg stories or talk about it lately.

  4. Michael Gray Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    If you had the nerve to sign your own name instead of fake@fake I might pay attention to you.

  5. Jeremy Luebke Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    OT

    what program are you using to take full page screen shots?

  6. Michael Gray Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    Firefox plug in https://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/

  7. tony rocks Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Yeah, this whole thing seems fishy, but there is nothing you can do. Well, you could let if bother you if Digg actually would be a swing vote haven.

  8. Josh Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 1:03 am

    Nice find. Ron Paul seems very popular…

  9. Michael Brown Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    Whats up with the “real email” requirements? There is always a small chance that the email entered is fake.

    But that that technology is surely in the hands of only the elite black hatters.

  10. doug Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    @Gray: If they’re campaign interns, then our tax dollars aren’t being spent.

    @Josh: Ron Paul isn’t particularly popular, but he does have an enthusiastic fan base on the internet. (see here under the “special message”)