Digg Patriots

The Digg Patriots, also known as the DPs, are a group of around 100 conservatives and Tea Party members, who were active on the social media site Digg.com, as well as other sites across the Internet. At Digg.com, they engaged in active censorship of posts, burying or voting down any post they perceived as being liberal, or progressive; upvote padding; conspiring to have liberal or moderate editors banned, while running multiple accounts in order to circumvent blocks received by their own members, known as sockpuppetry.

Their actions were exposed after a year-long investigation, leading to most members being banned.

See also

• Hacktivism
• Hypocrisy
• Jewish Internet Defense Force