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Reddit in particular with its very strong groupthink/circle jerk loop is really susceptible to this. Marketer's content gets popular/upvoted, then people parrot it, they get upvoted, repeat.


Recently, I successfully shut a 10,000+ karma reddit user on /r/webdev up because he spreads false information on particular html spec (that comment got 10 upvotes, unbelievable).




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