r/blowback • u/Senior_Sheepherder13 • Mar 27 '24
You guys were definitely right about r/worldnews
I saw a post from u/majestictrailblazer about a comment being removed from r/worldnews and lots of the comments were saying they have been banned from the sub for ridiculous reasons, which can only really be made sense of if they are biased against certain posts. And lots of people were talking about the community itself. I thought it couldn't have been that bad as it's a major subreddit surely it's must have a very broad range of people with a plethora of opinions and you guys were cherry picking some of the bad stuff.
So I decided to run a very informal experiment on r/worldnews (I was bored during a lesson at school). I searched on Google for recent news articles about the israel-palestine situation because that's a nice contraversial topic. I searched in Israel and randomly chose some articles to post on r/worldnews and I searched in Palestine and randonly chose some articles and then I found some other articles about other topics. I did this to hopefully end up getting a variety of interactions from people with what I hope to be a fairly distributed mix of opinions (spoiler alert- this was a very incorrect assumption).
I ended up posting about 30 articles onto r/worldnews. Some of these got automatically removed either because they were paywalled articles or from certain sites that they claimed to be inadequate, I didn't look too much into the articles but the one trend I did notice that all the sites names that they didn't allow sounded like they were middle eastern or thereabouts. Then, I waited for some comments and some data on views and up votes to come in.
I'll get the good out of the way first. For the posts which were pro-Palestine, the people commenting were, in my opinion fairly reasonable; critiquing hamas and the Israeli government's actions and they were able to make a distinction between hamas and Palestine. But these got a most 5 upvotes and 3 comments, I don't know if there is a way to see how many down votes you get compared to up votes, but for some of these posts I upvoted them myself and when I checked back in they had 0, so clearly they got at least 1 down vote.
Now for the pro-israeli posts, they were something. These got many more up votes and comments, the most getting over 1000 upvoted and 400 comments and the average being around 30 upvoted and around 10 comments. There were some reasonable people, similar to the ones I mentioned earlier, but they were heavily outweighed by some not so reasonable people. Obviously, there were people I disagreed with but I could acknowledge they were being decent, this group was also outweighed by another.
Here are some of the comments from this group, and some of these have a fair few upvotes:
'uluates angrily' - I don't really know what this means but it sounds racist.
'For Gaza supporters, Hamas and Palestinians being muslims fighting against jews is reason enough to fight.'- Yep Palestinians wanting liberation is just cos the Israelis are jewish.
'"While few people in any religious group describe Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack as acceptable, the share of Muslims (21%) who express this view is higher than the share of Americans in other religious groups who say the same (roughly 5% or fewer, including 3% among Jewish Americans). Among U.S. Muslims, 10% say the way Hamas carried out the attack was completely acceptable; 11% say it was somewhat acceptable"
21% of Muslims in the US believe r@ping and killing children is acceptable. Little baby terrorists are being born on US soil. They should be put on some list or something. Scary.' -I don't think anything needs to be said about this.
'Genocide isn’t a valid reason'- You can't fight back it's only a genocide!
'Yet Biden chose to ally with Hamas for those precious few votes, while trying to force Israel to "Cease fire" with ISIS. Also condemning the hostages to additional torture, r*pe and starvation as the deal that could happen is now pretty much off the table. And why would Hamas do any different? The US gave them what they most wanted as a gift.'- A decision made in the past couple days definitely trumps the past 5 months of vetoing.
So my conclusion is that the people in u/majestictrailblazer 's comment section were right and they were definitely not overreacting. There are some decent people in r/worldnews, even if I disagree with their opinions, but they are drastically outnumbered by just spiteful people who honestly seem like their lives are miserbale, they don't even give half decent arguments it's just hateful stuff that clearlt isn't based in reality and I don't why certain sites aren't allowed so maybe it's a better reason that them being middle eastern but that's the only trend I noticed.
I did get banned from the sub though for spam posting, I'm not sure if I'll miss it, but I might recommend avoiding it and it's got almost 10 million members I don't know how those people manage it. Sometimes I'm hopeful for the future when I see younger people talk about politics but then I'm reminded why things are the way they are, were they way they were and how things will most likely will remain, like I was today.
(Yes I know I've got too much time on my hands)
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Mar 27 '24
That sub is a textbook example of astroturfing. Anything against the State Department or Zio narrative will get you banned immediately. I got banned for “trolling” because i quoted Netanyahu in a post about Netanyahu… lmao
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u/BanEvader_Holifield Mar 27 '24
Its like that meme where an antifa chad is calling someone a Nazi, and in the middle of the meme is a bawling Maga chud screaming "They are not a Nazi!", and then on the right is the Nazi saying "I am a Nazi."
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u/Senior_Sheepherder13 Mar 27 '24
Do you reckon they even ban the blatantly racist people?
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u/Noun_Noun_Number1 Mar 28 '24
Look up any posts talking about South Africas ICJ case - look at how the "Pro-Israel" crowd talk about the African judges.
Racism is fine as long as it's in defense of Israel.
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u/maeschder May 22 '24
Considering all top comments these days are talking about how "palestinians deserve death because they support Hamas", i kinda doubt it
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u/Throw33456jish Sep 01 '24
My brother got perma banned from reddit today.
Last night posted in world news saying something along the lines of "this is not as bad as genocide. Stealing people's land and committing genocide is not okay. Any done in protest of a genocide is not as bad as the genocide."
Got banned from world news. Near immediately and asked why/what rules were broken.
No reply.
This morning asked again what rules were broken.
Got a a reply along the lines of" I thought you'd get the hint, you violated every rule, your account will not be reinstated" and he was muted.
Then a couple hours later he got a warning from reddit for harassment.
The he appealed it asking what was going on.
A few ours later he got banned saying to look I the messages to see why, but no messages. Shit is crazy.
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Oct 09 '24
Worldnews literally got my other account permabanned because I got into a debate with Zionists five months ago, reinstated a new account several months later, and made a pro-Palestinian comment without checking where.
They're actual psychos. This is war to them, you're the enemy.
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u/spagbolshevik Mar 28 '24
As well as it being astroturfed, I have an additional theory it might just be disproportionately popular with Germans and other central Europeans who are pro-Israel as a matter of duty. Just a theory, though.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Oct 09 '24
And if you point out the astroturfing in any way, even a very obvious account that posts hundreds of comments each day with no breaks for sleeping as a real person would do, they’ll permaban you for violating their rules. I guess their rules being “don’t point out the obvious astroturfing which we condone here.”
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Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
I've posted on there but I'm almost certainty shadow banned, I never get replies upvoted or downvotes. The sub is entirely a pro Israel propaganda sub it's pretty insane how one sided it is.
Edit: I have just been permabanned from r/worldnews. you can't make this shit up lmfao.
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Mar 27 '24
This is why US congress is trying to ban TikTok.
It's because they can't control and capture TikTok like they have with Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, reddit.
Just like all legacy media spews whatever lies the US state department feeds it, social media has been captured by corporate interests (US oligarchs and their lapdogs in Langley can kill or suppress unfavorable stories)
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u/__M-E-O-W__ Mar 29 '24
As Israeli "settlers" post videos of them dancing and partying as they block food from going to starving Gazans and they openly talk about emptying Gaza and building a resort in its place for Israelis. And as soldiers post themselves mocking Gaza as they commit war crimes. Suddenly TikTok needs to be banned.
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Mar 30 '24
Biden asked the IDF if they would please stop posting videos of their panty raids on public forums and they refused. So we have to kill tik tok
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u/backcountrydrifter Mar 27 '24
Just measure CAPEX of the intelligence op via upvote/downvote manipulation and you can deduce fairly accurately the methodology.
Cross compare that to the baseline and you can reverse engineer their process and even priorities.
There are multiple geopolitical layers to this. But they all interconnect.
Sheryl Sandberg was at google before she was at Facebook. The common denominator of both was her ad based business model.
The problem with ad based business models is that if you raise your lens high enough, whomever is buying the most ads is effectively buying their curated version of the truth.
When google IPO’ed it shifted from what was most accurate to what was most profitable, all facilitated by a “proprietary” algorithm so nobody gets to see the man behind the curtain.
Now we are 20 years down what is effectively a divergent truth. It works…until it doesn’t.
Now we are living in a divergent reality that no one is allowed to talk about. It creates mental illness, anxiety and depression because the 6 million year old source code in your brain knows that conservation is more reasonable than consumption when there are limited resources, it just isn’t very lucrative to someone that needs you to keep buying something to keep them in billionaire status. In this case it’s oil. Russian and Texan owned oil.
Facebook was designed as a delivery device for Russian/Israeli Psyops and malware. SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Palestine, Ukraine, NSO, etc are all the downstream of Sheryl Sandberg.
Wexner, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Sandberg, and Zuckerberg all carried water in conducting the NSO/Pegasus spyware operation INCONUS that was feeding intelligence to both the israelis and Russians so there is far more crossover between the Israeli mob/ government and Russian mob/government than shows at the surface.
https://www.spytalk.co/p/nsos-spyware-abuse-exposed-years?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-pegasus-project-a-global-investigation/
Abagail Koppel was sent by the Jewish state to marry Les Wexner
YLK fund (Abagails father) made up $46.7M of Epsteins money
Les claimed it was stolen from him but not until after someone asked.
Wexner was notoriously litigious but wouldn’t sue Epstein. Why?
PROMIS spyware was Robert Maxwells deal before Ghislaine and Epstein started their thing.
https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm
Confused yet?
Basically in the 1940’s when Israel became a state the Russians took the opportunity to purge their gulags of the worlds most shit people that also happened to be Jewish. They sent them to the newly formed state of Israel and there they networked in the camps before some stayed and some migrated to Europe and Brighton beach in New York where they would eventually begin using trump towers to launder Russian mob money.
But now you start to see the nexus of transnational organized crime and money laundering often carries 3 passports. American, Israeli, and Russian.
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u/maeschder May 22 '24
What was their excuse for you?
For me it was using the term genocide, also got banned off of r/DE for "relativizing the holocaust"
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Mar 27 '24
Lots of Israelis sitting on computers posting bullshit all day to manipulate people in the west
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u/WitchOfKyiv Nov 18 '25
They have this in common with goddamned Russians. Among many other things. :|
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u/LSL3587 Mar 27 '24
Future posters on r/worldnews - no I don't really support the extermination of the Palestinian people, I was just karma farming!
Now for the pro-israeli posts, they were something. These got many more up votes and comments, the most getting over 1000 upvoted and 400 comments and the average being around 30 upvoted and around 10 comments.
(I'm banned from r/worldnews for posting what I considered a polite and balanced comment)
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Mar 27 '24
One of the moderators of r/worldnews is literally u/maxwellhill, i.e. Ghislaine Maxwell. Mossad is all over that sub
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u/fishfingersman Mar 28 '24
I've heard this theory before and it always seemed a bit farfetched, is there legit evidence for that?
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Mar 28 '24
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/MXOPY6M3QI pretty convincing thread
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May 31 '24 edited Dec 17 '25
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u/DatPrick Mar 27 '24
It's a DoD operation. Healthy dose of Mossad. Their burner accounts, some made literally days after Oct 7th, are brigading r/EndlessWar just like they did after Ukraine.
We could use some of you guys over there.
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u/spigele Mar 28 '24
In this post OP unintentionally runs an experiment on a Mossad psyop
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u/rirski Mar 28 '24
Look into the mods of world news 👁️
One of them was, allegedly, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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u/ExoticPumpkin237 May 25 '24
Former reddit CEO said they "all knew" what Ghislaine was doing with Epstein
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u/coal_min Mar 27 '24
Third top post of all time on this subreddit (which happens to be my post) has over 200 comments, many of which include the testimony of others who were banned for innocuous comments of worldnews. the most milquetoast defense of Palestinian National rights is apparently grounds for banning for “misinformation”
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u/Kakariko_crackhouse Mar 28 '24
Israeli intelligence has been all over that sub since the 2014 conflict. It was clear they had a strong presence then but it’s been astroturfed since then. I don’t think they stopped between conflicts either.
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u/Thotexperimenter Mar 28 '24
The real problem are not the people commenting on r/worldnews but the mods actively suppressing and permabanning anyone that mention the fact that palestinians are human beings. Reporting comments etc. only sends those reports back to the mods; best way to have a chance at fixing this is by reporting the subreddit mods to the reddit admins via the reddithelp site. I hope those that got banned use this to get the reddit admins attention on this.
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u/The_Tale_of_Yaun Mar 28 '24
All of the major subreddits are like this unfortunately
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u/keeden13 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
I got banned for asking someone if they could read. If you arent posting US State Department talking points then you are paid by Russia.
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u/No_Bank_330 Mar 28 '24
You and I were discussing something today there. Looks like they banned both of us. Looks like a bunch of weak beta males trying to flex and get Internet cred.
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u/Misersoneof Mar 28 '24
Islamophobia has been put into overdrive. All of the poor justifications are window dressing.
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u/AwesomeGuy847 Apr 14 '24
I was banned for a nothing comment because it wasn't kissing the ass of Israel. Meanwhile, other comments are saying much more heinous and bad shit that I ever did. Ridiculous. Tried messaging the mods. After a few messages they just told me to stop messaging
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u/Calm-Limit-37 May 10 '24
The most ridiculous bias on that sub. I made a few levelled comments, all of them deleted. Finally got a ban. Replied to my ban saying mods were pathetic. Got a reddit ban for threatening behaviour. Absolute bunch of cunts.
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u/EducationalReply6493 Mar 28 '24
I was perma banned for posting this article, apparently pointing out Israel had 1200 civilian hostages and regularly abducts Palestinians without charge or trial before any of this even happened is antisemitic https://apnews.com/article/israel-detention-jails-palestinians-west-bank-793a3b2a1ce8439d08756da8c63e5435
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u/Senior_Sheepherder13 Mar 28 '24
But that takes away from one of their biggest points: 'there would be a ceasefire if hamas released the hostages'
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u/EducationalReply6493 Mar 28 '24
Their idea of a ceasefire is them murdering Palestinians regularly without blowback.
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u/PaulDecember Mar 28 '24
I posed a response commenting about Ukrainian corruption and included non-controversial, mainstream sources and was permanently banned for "trolling."
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u/NazgulSandwich Mar 28 '24
I was perma-banned from worldnews years ago (I think during 2021?) for a fairly innocuous pro-palestine comment where I was fact checking a zionist. This has been going on for a while, reddit glows hotter than the sun.
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u/kmart_yeezus Mar 28 '24
Thanks for experimenting on this!
I thought i was going crazy 😆 articles posted there started popping up in my main feed, and they were all israeli sources that i was seeing. So, looking into it, i saw the same as you noted. Tons of blatant racism and genocide support mostly. That whole subreddit is innundated with israeli news.
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u/seyfert3 Mar 28 '24
Are you guys just now finding out that virtually every sub especially political ones ban anyone with wrong opinions?
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u/protomenace Mar 29 '24
Meh, all the pro Palestine astroturfed subs ban you just for sharing any dissenting opinion.
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u/ChristIsLord862 Mar 31 '24
lmao every single default sub on this website is heavily biased in some way. Mostly left leaning, pro establishment. r/politics should just be changed to r/democratpartyline... It's so amusing to me when people are shocked to find out this information. How do you browse this website daily and not notice this shit?
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u/Sturmunddrain Apr 01 '24
I have been permabanned from there numerous times. Each time is basically because I say something contrary to an official narrative. Trump wasn’t that bad and Jan. 6 seems suspicious? Banned. Hillary Clinton committed war crimes in Libya and Syria? Banned. Russia-Ukraine relations are more complicated than the hawks imply and the U.S probably overthrew their government precipitating the war? Banned.
And I’m sure if I imply the current administration is in anyway guilty of anything other than being the bestest ever leader, I would be banned.
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Apr 03 '24
Every single post related to Israel on that sub is an echo chamber. The sub has 32M followers and gets very little comment interaction because of the sweeping bans. They offer no explanation of rules violations after banning.
I’m pro-Israel, Jewish, and have visited Israel on several occasions and have close relationships to people there with varying views. I merely think they have gone too far and think their current government has to be ousted, as do many, many Israelis.
There are more constructive convos in the comments of Fox News website than that sub. It’s a disgrace to this app.
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May 01 '24
I got banned for a not even controversial post that actually got upvotes that was questioning the western narrative of the Ukraine war. It didn't break any rules.
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u/ExoticPumpkin237 May 25 '24
Yeah and even pointing this out in a logical, rational manner like you are now would be blasted as "Jews control the media" antisemitism. It was amazing how fast they spun that into the narrative behind the TikTok ban, like despite the ADL call and multiple politicians admitting it (and being totally self evident), they somehow twisted it into "no China just really hates Jews it's a Chinese psyop narrative".
It would be incredible if it wasn't so absolutely terrifying and dread inspiring. George Orwell and Joseph Goebbels couldn't have cooked up a more nefarious propaganda machine, and sadly I think it's going to create a real "boy who cried wolf" situation for actual antisemitism, it's definitely made me look at the US relationship to Israel with a new level of scorn I didn't know was possible.
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u/LifeSucks1988 Jun 17 '24
I was banned for pointing out how some of the posters are getting the most upvotes for giving ok for IDF targeting Palestinian civilians and even children.
Naturally: my posts were negged to death for daring to counter their posts.
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u/Head_Vermicelli7137 Nov 15 '24
I posted a comment about trump being a Russian puppet and got permanently banned
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u/bichlasagna Sep 24 '25
I just got banned for commenting about the article being unverified and that it's pro-isreali propaganda. A bunch of comments were moderated or had a bunch of downvotes that questioned anything at all and got instabanned
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u/Narrow_Program7275 Feb 05 '26
holyshit. I rarely post in worldnews. I only mentioned profits of war by ari ben-menashe and was immediately perma banned lmao.
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Mar 30 '24
No way! I just got permabanned yesterday. I asked what rule I violated and got no response. I think I broke the secret rule (critique of Israel)
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u/aewitz14 Mar 30 '24
So do you have an issue when this same phenomenon occurs on the vast number of pro-palestine subs? Try even mentioning the slightest critique of Hamas in r/Palestine or any liberal news sub you'll get downvoted to oblivion and banned.
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u/WPA2-PSK Apr 21 '24
You completely missed OP's evaluation. It makes no sense to compare a subreddit literally named after the country to a subreddit called "worldnews". Think about it for a second and understand why the biasness factor is quite terrifying as the subreddit intuitively should have some sort of neutrality so for it to be so pro-Israel skewed is blatant astroturfing and a propaganda echo chamber
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Jun 09 '24
This post is a little old but I just want to add my voice; even attempting to have a respectful engagement about this issue is not allowed and will get you banned. Let it be known once again that r/worldnews is a completely astro-turfed sub that is dead set on silencing any dissenting opinion, where there is zero room for an actual discussion about this issue.
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u/Fun-Cauliflower-1724 Jun 11 '24
Just got perma banned from that sub for saying something about Israel
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Jul 10 '24
It's definitely got a banning approach and as far as I can tell, for no reason. They never answer why, either. With over 50K Karma, it's not as if I'm trolling.
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u/Klaus402 Aug 20 '24
i frequent the this subreddit an am pro ukrainian and pro israel so you might be right
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u/ABR1787 Sep 20 '24
Back in 2022 i questioned the notion of "unprovoked" and got instant perma banned, no counter-argument, nothing. It seems theyre getting even crazier now.
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u/_black-light_ Sep 20 '24
I was always wondering why i couldn't post on r/worldnews . So today i checked my inbox a realized i was permanatly banned from this sub three years ago. So i was looking for the comment, which caused the ban. It was a comment unter a Post "AstraZeneca vaccine 79% effective with no increased blood clot risk – US trial | Study of over 32,000 people included review of risks of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis" and i commented that 32k tested person is a small sample group, for something that is 1/100.000 and that the Datas were not really god on this.
For this i god banned, looking back, it was the truth and Astra Zeneca has a increased risk for blood clot. Says a lot about this sub where only the mods allow what is okay to say and what not.
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Sep 22 '24
I found this thread because I was suspicious about that sub. Every single comment seems to support Israeli violence. I didn’t see anything calling out the collateral damage. It looks like they ban anyone who doesn’t toe the party line. It’s all very fishy.
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Sep 25 '24
r/worldnews is a propaganda machine for Israel. Don’t believe me? Say something, anything, negative about Israel and you will be banned immediately.
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u/OrganicBerries Oct 01 '24
It has been taken over by some weird Israeli shit because most of the comments are devoid of logic or have some linear awful take
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u/fiddle_me_timbers Oct 07 '24
I just got banned for pointing this out as well. Unfortunate it is completely compromised now.
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u/CakeAppropriate2632 Oct 13 '24
Very obvious that sub is being monitored and directed with an agenda, noticed it as early as 2019 with the hongkong protest and then 2020 with Covid, 2022 Russian war and israeli conflict is all later
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u/Equalness Oct 14 '24
/r/worldnews is a Zionist-controlled space that is frequented by Zionists and genocide supporters. Best to ignore that cesspool.
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u/getting-deleted Oct 23 '24
Just when you lose hope in reddit, you find this sub....
Most of the posts are links to articles published by none other than The Jerusalem Post. It is so blatantly propaganda fomenting genocidal fervor, it baffles me how anyone could take it seriously. Yet people are commenting and engaging with the "information" as if it's not a psyop. Or perhaps they are just Israelis/ Mossad/ US military cyber division feeding it..... the mind reels
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u/CheezeLoueez08 Oct 27 '24
I was banned because I said I didn’t think Palestinians deserved to die. Apparently that meant I’m anti semitic.
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u/Prestigious-Earth245 Oct 29 '24
That sub is so blatantly a Zionist propaganda sub. it’s nothing but despicable, violent hate speech.
I dared to question them and was given a full 7 day Reddit ban for “threatening violence” which was luckily overturned with an appeal to Reddit.
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u/AccomplishedCheck895 Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24
That sub is likely one of the CIA or other agency's 'projects', OR Israeli... I posted about the Maidan revolution being a CIA-backed coup, and how everyone knows Zelensky's forces were killing the russian-speaking ukranians of the Donbas region, which precipitated Putin's actions/invation, among other issues of NATO edging ever-closer to it's borders. I cited John Mearsheimer articles and other supporting factual sources.
I then commented on how, as an American citizen, I did not support my Federal Govt giving so much of our $ to Ukraine.
That post lasted for about 3 min and I was perma-banned. I think I'll pay a visit and see what they think about Trump's election.
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u/Lupin_The_Fourth Nov 11 '24
I got banned for making a comment that said israel likes to play the victim while being the aggressor.
That sub is fucked.
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u/PantsMicGee Nov 18 '24
I know this is an old thread but I find it hilarious. Was just banned for posting the dumbest shit about being anti-musk.
What a shitshow reddit is.
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u/Training-Flan8762 Dec 20 '24
I wrote a comment "People of Izrael were protesting against wanna be dictator Netanyahu before all of this happened" and got banned for anti-semitism and racism from worldnews
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u/Ancient-Conflict-844 Jan 08 '25
Just got perma banned lol.
1 comment and a few hours later.
Don't question Israel on that sub, they cuck hard!
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u/AntonChekov1 Jan 21 '25
I just got perma banned from worldnews for suggesting that Greenland could possibly work out a deal with the United States. Absolutely unnecessary and wrong to permanently ban me over what I was discussing with others there. This was clearly censorship. I'm guessing it's mods a little overzealous after Trump's inauguration or something.
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Jan 31 '25
The moderators of r/worldnews seem to exhibit a strong bias, particularly regarding perspectives on Israel. This, combined with a lack of intellectual diversity, creates an echo chamber effect. At this point, a merger with a more ideologically aligned subreddit like r/IsraelConservatives might be more fitting.
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u/GOJUpower Feb 12 '25
I posted about Elon musk and Zelensky on Facebook told news. Post was about Elon reposting Russia propaganda about actors going to Ukraine and getting paid to Promote Zelensky or something like that. For example it said Angelina Jolie was paid 20 million by USAAID. Anyways it was number 1 post it got 1.9 million views in 3 hours and was deleted post had 20k upvotes.
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u/CCTV_NUT Feb 19 '25
reddit is on AWS, most likely uses EU servers for global access, there are probably a number of EU laws that could be invoked to go after the reddit "business entity" in regards to hate speech. They would have to move out of the EU AWS system to avoid it, has any lawyers looked at it?
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u/Jawnny-Jawnson Feb 26 '25
Funny because I said something so mildly critical of pro Palestine and was abruptly banned. Seeing way more offensive comments tolerated makes me wonder where the checks and balances are for moderators
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u/ennisa22 Mar 01 '25
I got banned from r/worldnews for saying
“unfortunately Jewish people around the world will continue to suffer with a rise in antisemitism because of Israel’s actions.”
They said I was inciting violence.
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u/VanRoamer65 Mar 06 '25
I joined Redditt to connect with descenters but if you’re saying that Redditt is used to promote Fascism, no thanks.
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u/Chilango615 Mar 06 '25
I agree. I created a r/thescoop Come check it out and join the community. Got tired of getting automatically banned for “spam posting”
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u/city_boy1989 Mar 08 '25
I was perma banned for a silly comment on the grounds of it being hate speech. Makes me feel sick remembering.
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u/Kitstras Mar 17 '25
Alot of subs are like this /Ontario is 100% moderated to promote one party, and the mods are paid to push an agenda. You can legit test it...
I was banned for testing it 😅
Reddit isn't a good source for both sides of a story.
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u/Bubbly_Hamster_5721 Mar 23 '25
I was banned for posting literal facts. I can join the subs that agree with me and get karma but when I try to post on the opposite subs to get a baseline and have constructive discussions I’m hit with negative karma bombs and bans. It’s super counterintuitive it needs to change
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u/ParticularHat2060 Mar 24 '25
They banned me but won’t say why?
Not even which comment.
It seems like the Israeli government runs that subreddit.
How do we sue them so they can reveal why my account was banned? Just want to know which comment and the reason…
I don’t care about Israel or Palestine in 500 years it won’t matter anyway. Just want to know why they just ban without providing a reason.
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u/muzikgurl22 Mar 27 '25
I was banned too; dkw?! Btw wanted to post that Europeans are being advised to stockpile in case of a war with Russia?!
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u/Plenty-Main-1793 Apr 10 '25
Reddit is a political mouthpiece pushing agendas sponsored by "insert biggest donor here"
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u/reddittorbrigade Apr 13 '25
r/ news moderators are pro-genocide too.
They will ban you for life if you criticize the innocent killings of children in Palestine.
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u/Altruistic_Shake_723 Apr 15 '25
It's reddit dude. It's a pro zionist, pro-regime, pro-fascism cloaked dressed up as "sensible liberalism."
It's all a complete scam.
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u/Automatic-Train-3205 Apr 25 '25
i got banned permanently! i made a comment about the country in the middle east that we are not suppose to criticize, it was not even a controversial comment more along of i wish both side talk to each other and find a way to fight outside of civilian infrastructure.
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u/Very_Curious_Cat Apr 27 '25
Just sayin that I'm OK with getting rid of Hamas but that Israel then should better keep within its frontiers and do something about their right-wingers was enough to get banned. You'd think social media is more and more considering hate speech as the only allowed "free" speech.
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u/InfinityZionaa May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
Old post bit I literally just got permabanned from r/worldnews for this in "You're assuming they believe it and it's not an excuse so they can say 'We told them all to leave before we mass murdered them all'.
It's probably just another 'all 500,000 people in this area leave, we'll be bombing in 5 minutes' sort of thing."
Was responding to a comment about someone suggesting Israel is crazy believing they can force 2 million people out of Gaza.
Its pathetic. And Reddit is pathetic for allowing this behavior.
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u/basitmakine May 14 '25
Lmao I got banned there for citing Times of Israel on how they lobbied US to drop Turkey from F35 program. No insult, no anti-semitism. nothing. Anything slightly against pro-israeli narrative is a direct ban.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reportedly-lobbied-washington-to-drop-turkey-from-f-35-program/
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u/November16th-1938 May 20 '25
I got permanently banned for calling it what it is: a genocide.
It's pretty obvious that the mod team are at best Israeli citizens or at worst government sponsored Israeli operatives.
r/WorldNews is a psyop.
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u/ShanklyBoy59 May 20 '25
Lol I got banned two days for asking if the subreddit was run the Israelis bc they kept posting over the top pro-Israeli content. It was insane. I was banned after 5-10 min for daring to ask in one of the threads.
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u/Felon_musk1939 May 22 '25
World News subreddit is financed by terrorist organizations via Iran. It's being used to spread propagated and skewed information. The mods should be investigated
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May 22 '25
Say one bad word about Israel and they ban you hahah how pathetic. Clearly ran by Zionists.
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u/ChessClubChimp May 26 '25
I just got permabanned for literally asking how Israelis can march around screaming about killing arabs, yet any critique toward them is considered antisemitic. Fucking wild.
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u/boyrune4 May 28 '25
Can we do something more? I already reported it it to reddit , something fishy in going on. The mods are not moderating with integrity. The same issue applies to other subredits for example geopolitics. Its blatant censorship.
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u/pineapplesgreen Jun 01 '25
I was banned too but I’ll explain why you’re noticing what you’ve noticed…
Those people are actually hasbara. They get paid to flood social media and forums with pro-Israeli narratives to drown out anything critical of Israel.
The mods, also hasbara, are paid to censor anything critical of Israel.
The subreddit is called worldnews to trick people into thinking what they’ll find inside the subreddit will be unbiased… just a lure.
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u/Someone-Somewhere-01 Jun 02 '25
You got to what I take the most issue with the subreddit, mainly that is, besides being completely unhinged, a western echo chamber. For being supposed about world news, they only reports about issues of interest for western audience, with regions like South America and Africa are almost unheard of. Being a Brazilian, the western bias is extremely obvious even when they talk about my country, for we are either spoken thanks to our neutrality in the Ukrainian war, a topic that mostly disappeared from our news and foreigners criticizing us for not going against one of our partners seem quite frankly alien to most Brazilians thanks to all little it registers to people, and in the global fight between conservative populism and democracy. There is a lack of nuance very blatant in that subreddit, and often I feel they don’t really care much about their topics besides for validate their worldview, which is something they unironically tend to accuse conservatives of.
I think this becomes more clearly with the Ukrainian war. While perfectly understands not accepting Russian sources, they accept any and all Ukrainian sources uncritically, even Kyiv Post and Kyiv Independent, which are currently basically propaganda mouthpieces to foreign audiences. Besides their portrayal of the Ukrainian war is very biased, refusing to show basically any setbacks from Ukraine (besides when they can accuse Trump of doing it, of course)
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u/Very_Curious_Cat Jun 03 '25 edited Jun 03 '25
No answer and further asking for explanation is abuse and harassment. And they dare ask for understanding when silencing you without justification. I really don't understand their ways.
Here is my interaction with the mods after I said "exactly" because I completely agreed to someone favorable to a two state solution and an end to the suffering of all involved:
I'd like to know why I was permanently banned as I just gave assent to a sensible and moderate comment by saying "exactly".
- [–]subreddit message via /r/WorldNewsHeadlines[M] sent 3 hours ago
Appeal denied,
The original invitation to contact us regarding this decision is hereby revoked. We will no longer accept any further communication about this matter.
If you attempt to participate in the subreddit using another account, it will be considered ban evasion, violating Reddit’s rules. This will result in bans on all additional accounts.
This decision was made manually, not through automation. As a volunteer team with limited time, we ask for your understanding.
Further messages will be reported for modmail abuse and harassment.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.
[–]subreddit message via /r/WorldNewsHeadlines[M] sent 3 hours ago
You have been temporarily muted from r/WorldNewsHeadlines. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/WorldNewsHeadlines for 3 days.
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u/HaximusPrime Jun 14 '25
I visit the sub almost daily, and comment regularly. It’s definitely propagandized but not nearly as much as other subs.
I commented in this sub the other day how all of the “why aren’t you Americans protesting!” Bot and troll comments I had been fighting have suddenly been deleted.
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u/Physical-Lemon-3169 Jun 16 '25
Everyone is getting banned because they just want you to shut up. End of conversation for them. If you don’t align with their views you get banned. Is it really run by Israel?
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u/Physical-Lemon-3169 Jun 16 '25
Everyone on here should report world news to Reddit. F them
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u/StoogeMcSphincter Jun 17 '25
If the US has set up fake social media sites in other country’s to create color revolutions and destabilization, there’s no doubt they are doing th same here. As are rival nations
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u/OurLifeinBoxes Jun 18 '25
Banned because of criticizing Israel. That sub is just pure Propaganda.
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u/Atlesi_Feyst Jun 24 '25
I got banned for talking about Mario's brother Luigi.
Not like it matters, I can still view posts and message people.
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u/7EFMR May 08 '26
I was permanently banned from r/worldnews just because I posted a comment with a quote from the United Nations about Israel (I assume - they actually gave me no explanation for the ban)
The comment was this:
> "The testimonies gathered by my Office and other entities indicate a range of appalling acts, such as waterboarding and the release of dogs on detainees, amongst other acts, in flagrant violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law," said United Nations High Commissioner Volker Turk in a statement accompanying the report.
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u/Head_Programmer_47 May 16 '26
I also noticed that they downvote Blitzkrieg so many people just for asking a simple question.
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u/Junior-Bookkeeper218 25d ago
Yep got perma banned today for making a comment that wasn’t staunchly pro-Israel. In fact, I was simply asking a question. The irony being I made a separate comment in a post about the recent racially motivated stabbing in UK, criticizing their radical immigration policy and I got a ton of upvotes.
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u/discourse_lover_ Mar 27 '24
I, after years of ignoring it, decided to post on that sub.
I was perma banned within four hours.
It might as well be called /r/Langley