{"id":295801,"date":"2017-02-21T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reddit-censors-pro-trump-content-in-new-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:00:17","slug":"reddit-censors-pro-trump-content-in-new-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reddit-censors-pro-trump-content-in-new-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Censors Pro-Trump Content in New Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Reddit joins Facebook to control public opinion on-line<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>Feb. 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Reddit is banning the vast majority of pro-Donald Trump posts from appearing on its \u201cmost popular\u201d page frequented by new users.<\/p>\n<p>The online discussion site announced it was clamping down on what would appear as \u201cpopular\u201d by showing visitors only popular posts from handpicked categories, which\u00a0would apparently exclude <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/02\/16\/reddit-new-front-page-popular\/#b807QJ517Eqb\">anything from pro-Trump subreddits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a graph reveals that Reddit administrators are <a href=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/plvn9a0fh4gy.png\">actively filtering out posts<\/a> from <i>The_Donald<\/i> subreddit from appearing in \/r\/popular; if the filter represented just an algorithm based on what users filtered out themselves, one would expect more posts filtered from r\/politics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash\">#Trump<\/a> posts buried the most by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reddit?src=hash\">#Reddit<\/a> moderators\u2026 imagine my surprise \u2013 Full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xjLtSqeCjF\">https:\/\/t.co\/xjLtSqeCjF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DRUDGE\">@DRUDGE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BKgs7p5dLj\">pic.twitter.com\/BKgs7p5dLj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kit Daniels (@KitDaniels1776) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KitDaniels1776\/status\/833768314073657346\">February 20, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, there\u2019s\u00a0a clear bias against anything pro-Trump, and there\u2019s precedent to believe this is intentional censorship.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Back in Nov., Reddit CEO Steve Huffman vowed to suppress certain pro-Trump posts from appearing elsewhere on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPosts stickied on r\/the_donald will no longer appear in r\/all \u2013 r\/all is not our frontpage, but is a popular listing that our most engaged users frequent, including myself,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/30\/reddit-ceo-announces-plan-to-suppress-pro-donald-trump-subreddit\/\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe sticky feature was designed for moderators to make announcements or highlight specific posts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not meant to circumvent organic voting, which r\/the_donald does to slingshot posts into r\/all, often in a manner that is antagonistic to the rest of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>But Huffman\u2019s justification is overshadowed by the scandal in which <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/24\/reddit-ceo-admits-to-editing-comments-by-trump-supporters-attacking-him\/\">he was caught editing comments<\/a> by pro-Trump users critical of him on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t alone.\u00a0 Since Trump\u2019s election, the largest social&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/reddit-censors-pro-trump-content-in-new-crackdown.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit joins Facebook to control public opinion on-line Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comFeb. 20, 2017 Reddit is banning the vast majority of pro-Donald Trump posts from appearing on its \u201cmost popular\u201d page frequented by new users. The online discussion site announced it was clamping down on what would appear as \u201cpopular\u201d by showing visitors only popular posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}