Reddit and Facebook Accused of Censorship After Pages Discussing

I had the first thread up when they announced the death toll jumped from 20 to 50. My post was up within 60 seconds, got 30 upvotes and was deleted in less than a minute. Reputable news source (ABC News) and it was new news and the mega thread had been locked for an hour or more and there were zero new posts with updated info. But it got deleted in maybe a minute or two. No notice or reason why. Such a shitty, shitty day for Reddit. Would still like to know why it got deleted.I'm more interested in seeing how Facebook is censoring this story. Reddit moderators are unpaid amateurs. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for. Facebook is a professionally run establishment with some real power, and it's chilling to think that they are trying to shape the narrative.

In my opinion, the mods (and admins) that are defending and/or minimizing it are part of the problem too. Blaming it on brigading or other nonsense is just as bad. I'm not going to use reddit for news any longer, but I'll stick with it for camping, fitness, and football discussion. As far as news, they've lost too much credibility to get my support in the future.I put up a ABC article that was taken down because it was submitted like 100 times (so I was told) then I had my second thread taken down because half the comments were homophobic and the other half were anti muslim. Not saying that was the reason but that might be the same thing.

Judging from the PM's, I must have struck a nerve. If any Trump fans felt these comments might be insulting then I must apologize for not insulting you with more clarity, you pathetic tedious shitwads.All the alternative news subs are just Diet Stormfront. I'm afraid getting news on Reddit is a lost cause until after the election.You should always have several news sources. Any single news outlet is bound to be biased in some way, and using several simultaneously helps looking at issues from various viewpoints.How do you brigade a sub that literally everyone belongs to? That is not brigading, that is users speaking up about a poorly run sub.

The mods want to censor everything to "protect" groups from hate speech, but all they're doing is driving people away who want to read the news into the arms of the real racists and real hate mongers. People will get the news one way or another. Deleting "inconvenient" news will draw them to someone who won't. Chances are those outlets might be run by people who also have an ideological aim as well, the aim that these people are trying to prevent.Reddit is weird. Typically, brigading is when someone links to a post from another sub, sort of as a call to action; like "look at this fool, let's all go show him how wrong he is." Sometimes they can tell if that is actually happening; like link bots alerting when a submission has been linked from another sub. If that was not the actual case, then no, it was not brigading.