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Conservative proganda is a highly coordinated and well-funded network. They pay for preference.
It's not that so much as Howard Stern theory. The people that like that stuff, click on it and move on.
The people that hate that stuff hate it enough to interact with it... That means more time on the site, more ads, more revenue.
It's just the hate algorithms... They're lucrative.