Digg this: Conservative efforts to manipulate the public discussion extend to social media

A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.

That's from an exposé last month by Alternet, "Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered."  I didn't blog on it at the time because I was just...