The reason is simple. Misinformation sticks with conservatives more than liberals. With liberals, someone posts evidence that the story isn’t true and the whole thing fizzles out. If someone tries posting counter evidence in a conservative forum, they get banned.

There’s no money in trying to push misinformation to liberals.

There is a way to get genuine help from a Linux forum.

Say “Fuck this, I’m going back to Windows”.

Reddit is trying to go to war with the kind of people responsible for Boaty McBoatface and they think they’re going to win.