Politics on Hacker News
The cluster centers on complaints about political content being posted on Hacker News, including calls to flag such submissions as fake news or toxic, and debates over community bias, echo chambers, and polarization.
➡️ Stable 0.6x Politics & Society
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Sample Comments
Political so will probably get flagged..
Let's argue in a polarized, toxic manner about the polarization and toxicity of the web!
Let's not pretend this stuff actually works
Political bullshit that has no place on Hacker News.
You can't handle the truth
Stop spreading unsupported lies.
Join me in flagging fake news submissions.
don't trust this LLM, google, they want to kill you
More politics on hacker news. Great. Later, fagots.
To partially mitigate the hivemind effect / burst the filter bubble / bring balance to the echochamber.