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Around the web you can find communities built for local towns, places to discuss local

events, politics, sales, and much more.

But recently, a small town in New Zealand has appeared on the recommended page for many

thousands of people around the world.

On closer inspection, this odd New Zealand town seems to be hiding some dark secrets.

Today, let's subscribe to the subreddit known as Martin.

This is Redweb.

Welcome back for another mystery Monday.

I'm Trevor Collins with me, as always, as Alfredo Diaz.

Fredo, we're dipping our toes back into the unknown abyss of the internet.

Oh, hold on.

Are we talking about a small creepy town that's trying to lure people in?

It's popping up on recommended pages all over the world.

Despite algorithms usually saying, like, I normally you like this, you like that, you live

over there.

Maybe this is what you like.

Could you pay to force that into someone's algorithm?

Oh, now that is a good question.

I think you can, but normally they show up as like sponsored or ads are promoted.

Right, true.

So there's something else going on here.

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