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Reddit propagandists' take on recent news (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by Octagon9561@lemmy.ml to c/palestine@lemmy.ml

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Anything that challenges their narrative, even from what they consider trusted outlets by their own definition using an unchanged headline from the original article, gets removed.

Never posted on r/worldnews before and got permabanned for this. The mods there truly are genocidal neoliberal fascists. Boycott Western media.

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Unironically every single big social media site is run by government skinwalkers.

[-] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

There's been a lot of shoddy journalism about Israel/Gaza from all narratives and I feel like this has been testing the media literacy of a lot of progressives, but uh... CNN is not a fringe source. This banning feels bad.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

CNN isn't fringe at all. It's propaganda coming straight outta the imperial core.

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

reddit is controlled by the cia. mintpressnews has an article about it.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

r/Worldnews is literally an echo chamber for propaganda. They will literally ban users or lock posts/stories, so no one cannot use/repost the same source or even similar, exploiting their own rules to shut down even valid stories/sources of anything that goes against their pre-selected narratives. I have seen this firsthand on a number of topics and more than once, in order to end up shaping general narratives to normies by killing stories, thus creating a different worldview based on lies by omission.

Reddit, for news, just creates reality myopia.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

The flair said covered by other articles, as in we don't need multiple articles about the same topic. If you want a livelier debate, this is the right way to keep everyone speaking about the topic in the same post.

[-] somename@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

/r/WorldNews is a controlled garden, and if you say anything against the moderation’s line, you’ll get banned. It’s even become noticeable even to normal ass Reddit users.

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Worldnews is famously a zionist hasbara distribution channel. Any opinion that is not pro zionist is perma banned there.

I got banned there for writing in a comment that Israelis act like fascists towards Palestinians in the occupied west bank. The mod team responded in Hebrew and muted me. You kick a rock and hundreds of current and former reddit users will come out from under there telling you a similar story.

It is pretty well known in reddit you are not allowed to write criticism of Israel on Worldnews.

[-] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What do you expect from Reddit? Each Subreddit has millions of rules. It is like walking on a field of landmines. They even censor the names of certain politicians in a Subreddit is that totally relevant for. For example, you can't mention the name of a governor of a state, in which the state is subject of the subRedditt. Redditt is ONLY for “clique-based communities.” It is a fascist news aggregator posing as something legitimate. They also don't allow new user accounts posting or doing anything unless you pass their Shittitt qualifications. The mods mischaracterize you and your arguments in order to ban you.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sure I'm gonna get shit for this, but...

An article of the actual event was on the front page of /r/worldnews for several days. Who her family happens to ascribe blame to doesn't sound even remotely news-worthy to me - they have exactly as much information as anyone else

I don't think it warrants a ban, but I also don't think the article belongs 🤷‍♂️

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It's also flared as being covered by other news articles. Not worth a ban, but people's feeds shouldn't be filled with every news article for every event, so I'd agree with the post being un-needed.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That sounds legit, until you go to the sub and it's 100000 posts about russia/ukraine - most of them about the exact same event(s). 1, 2, 3, 4

[+] mean_bean279@lemmy.world -6 points 3 months ago

It might have also been removed since world news (last time I was on it a few years ago) does not allow United States specific news. Since they’re Americans speaking in America I suspect that might fall under that rule.

[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

The removal reason is literally visible in the screenshot. It has nothing to do with being specific to the United States, it got removed because an article on the topic has previously been posted to the sub already, and they don't want their frontage to be full of reposts

[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The OP was claiming that they were removing “anything that challenges their narrative” which I’d assume means they looked up to see if their post was a repost first. So the other posts this is reference (which OP claims they aren’t allowing) is what I was saying might have not been allowed.

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I assumed the intended read here is that the mods are doing a plausible-deniability thing here where they're not outright lying. Meaning the content in the headline here was buried in a different article that was allowed, but the one that got through had a focus on a closely-related topic that could earn a more Israel-friendly headline. Since most people read the headlines and not the articles, this shapes the narrative with wiggle room for saying the takedown is justified.

If there was another article allowed that was actually focused on the demands for an independent investigation, then yeah OP is bullshitting. Not going to say whether that's the case because I don't care enough to justify opening reddit to find out.

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