That is complete and utter nonsense. Nothing you said is true.
You can visit http://reddit.com/r/all and see that Pro-trump posts are always in the top 10 and at least 2 will be shown in the top 40. So no they don't filter our pro-Trump posts. They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites.
>They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites
By... Filtering out r/The_Donald. You can claim the reason was apolitical. Fine. But I think you have to be extremely naive to do so, given what was going on on reddit during the elections.
>And the defaults are not political at all:
Some are not, some are. All that are, are aligned with the admins' political view and routinely ban users that disagree with them.
You can visit http://reddit.com/r/all and see that Pro-trump posts are always in the top 10 and at least 2 will be shown in the top 40. So no they don't filter our pro-Trump posts. They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites.
And the defaults are not political at all:
https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/4l3svc/list_of_de...