Valleywag: Digg has secret editors
January 18th, 2008Posted by Oliver Luft in Editors' pick
Hold onto your hats, this might get rough.
Valleywag says Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has admitted that his social news site, a supposedly democratic venue where users pick the headlines, employs moderators: “We have site moderators that ban spammers, remove illegal content, and keep an eye on things. Always have, always will.”
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