Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very clear that was going on in other subreddits too. E.g., moderators in r/worldnews conspiring to promote certain views while suppressing others.
there's a cabal of power mods that control a large number of the most popular subreddits it's definitely used to push certain views on Reddit.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-re...
Archive link: https://archive.is/aSdCI
Here's an interesting article on just that