On Saturday I wrote about an exclusive AlterNet report that purported to reveal a wide-ranging plot to rid the social bookmarking website Digg.com of links from websites like Media Matters and other progressive sources.
Writing at The New York Observer's Media Mobb blog, Leon Neyfakh noted that Digg.com founder Kevin Rose posted a response to concern over the story saying, “his team was 'looking into this.'” Additionally, Neyfakh notes the comments of Digg.com communications director Michelle Husak who didn't seem to grasp the seriousness of the story:
Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted yesterday that his team was “looking into this” but that they were focused on the relaunch. ReadWriteWeb got on the phone with Digg's communications director Michelle Husak, who called the Alternet article “an interesting look into the lengths people will go to create the Digg experience they think is best,” which conspicuously stops short of condemning the people involved in Digg Patriots and implies that their use of the site was their perogative. She added, however, that the new platform will not have a “bury” feature and “focuses much more on a relevant and personalized news experience by allowing users to follow profiles of people and content curators that they know and trust.”
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