Main Stream publishers on Digg are stealing their own content

August 29 2010, 6:21am

Currently on Digg, the “Top News” section is packed full of news from Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Mashable which is all submitted by themselves. So here’s the kicker — Ars Technica is using Digg’s fancy new auto-RSS importer that spams Digg with it’s posts, which inevitably all make it to the homepage, thanks to its thousands of “followers”, and then becomes the post of the day.

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