We’ve long known that the news moderators at Reddit, the 14th most visited website in the United States, were biased, blocking on their news pages any link to Jihad Watch and many other sites critical of Islam. The idea of Reddit is that it would be fairly unmoderated, with users voting for or against submissions using an upvote/downvote system. The moderators were there to moderate in the simplest sense, but more recently, it looks as if they are just blocking or deleting anything that goes against the mainstream narrative.

That said, we are not alone: the moderators have decided among themselves to ban a large number of news sources, from The Huffington Post to Breitbart, and the Reddit users seem to be happy to live with it. Jihad Watch has seen a large drop in the number of visits from Reddit, probably less than a tenth compared to three years ago, as links from here are only allowed on Reddit’s “conservative” pages, and even when those links are put up, they often disappear soon after they were posted.

With just referrals showing in my logs, I am able to see a few short visits to Jihad Watch from Reddit before the Reddit moderators remove any evidence that someone dared share a post from this site.
But they have really outdone themselves this time: early on following the attack killing 50 people at the gay bar in Florida Saturday night, Reddit decided to ban all news posts regarding the attack. This already had Reddit users up in arms, but later in the day, when requests for blood donors to come forward were made, the Reddit moderators also censored those posts. That was a bridge too far: they started seeing their numbers drop. You can read more about that here at vocativ.com.
I was still holding out hope for Reddit. Many of my peers in infosec use it as much as they do any other social media site, but I’ve removed my own subscription, and will be removing the Reddit share button here at Jihad Watch as soon as I finish this post.
This is not the same issue as the one regarding Facebook. There is unacceptable bias and censorship at Facebook for sure, but this site as well as many other Islamocritical sites still see a large amount of traffic from Facebook. I was monitoring Facebook’s newsfeed myself today, and saw that they were fairly well balanced. They did not block calls for blood donors. The pages we are seeing being taken down are mostly due to mass reporting by organized groups of users, leveraging (that is, abusing) Facebook’s reporting system.
Since this has all broken at Reddit, they are seeing some backlash. Currently 20 users per minute are unsubscribing.
Eylon says
Hope Natural selection still works. and censorship-centered website will not prevail.
PC forever.
mortimer says
Nothing natural about it… there’s surely bribery and foreign oil money at work here along with a coterie of ideologues without a grounding in philosophy.
DFD says
Reddit is well known on ex-Muslim/Apostate websites. For years many or most of its ‘moderators’; are Muslims. That’s why there are frequent warnings to contact them in any form, since they will collect (in all likely hood) the email addresses of anyone deemed anti Muslim.
dragaozao says
Amazing! Block reality? Uauuuu!!!! Land of the free, hem?
eduardo odraude says
Well I will certainly not sign up for Reddit till I hear of a change of policy.
Elilla says
Good luck. Reddit has a lot what cancer(channers and redditors call full-blown censorship). Look up Ellen Pao and you’ll see how much of a mess it is.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO MARC — I am very pleased to see another post by you on JW. Please become a frequent contributor, especially because of your technical IT mastery.
You keep Robert’s counter-jihad blog here out of the jaws of Allah’s fan club — and I am sure that is not easy.
As the truth about Islam becomes increasingly clear to even the most clueless denier of reality, Americans will see more attempts to conceal the facts — as is happening now on Reddit and Facebook.
marc says
Thank you for the kind words jihad3tracker, I am an active blogger and contributor in the infosec community, mostly dealing with financially motivated criminal abuse of the web, it’s quite rare that I have something to share with this community that would make much sense and add much value.
Attacks over the internet, hacking and ddos are very relevant to this community, but are no different in attack vectors than any other targeted.
This particular story seemed very relevant, and i felt I could present it in a way Jihad Watcher’s would understand.
linnte says
Bless you Marc!
Concerned Citizen says
Many of my comments on TMZ have been removed because I was merely stating facts to liberals after reading their rude comments! These commentators probably flagged me and had my comments removed. I wasn’t very nice to them. Liberals can dish it out but they can not take it. They refuse to allow conservatives to comment on anything anymore because it doesn’t fit the narrative. We were all commenting about the events that took place in Orlando yesterday. It makes me sick.
R Cole says
These social media sites are huge donors to the Democratic party and the Democrats are in control of what is politically correct at the moment.
These social media sites run on trust and longevity is only assumed.
In a Communist country it was much easier to control speech – it was not your site that disappeared – you disappeared.
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Although I had seen the Reddit buttons – I’ve never used the site – today is the first time I’ve ever visited the site.
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Can’t Handle the Truth!
I can remember back when this whole Islamic thing started – comments under newspaper articles were heavily censored. Then it seemed many got extremely selective on which articles they would show. What turned out to be the current PC – started with newspapers voicing concern that any article printed that might be deemed offensive to [read: accurately report on] Islam – might result in their offices being attacked. Long before Charlie Hebdo. But what it meant was people flocked to the blogs. Then you started to see this infiltration of the news – where the news started to sound more like the blogs.
What’s to censor – this man killed 50 people in the name of his religion and he would have killed more. Just after CAIR makes a statement that says this has nothing to do with Islam – which we’re supposed to accept as the gospel – we find out that the shooter’s mosque had a speaker – and the topic of discussion was that gays should to be killed.
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But the censorship does not stop with social media – the intelligence on these radical Muslims in America has been censored – such that what’s handed to Obama in the way of intelligence – on threats on American soil – is a blank sheet of paper.
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Narcissist
Sadly, Obama is more concerned about his image and how he looks to the wider Islamic world – than maintaining America’s security. He was employed a Leftwing ‘hate group’ monitor that doesn’t have a single radical Islamic group listed on its site. But featured highly are those who would shed light on the ideology behind the violence in Islam.
JawsV says
I wouldn’t waste my time posting on or reading Reddit. But, I don’t get it – why block calls for blood donors??
WorkingClassPost says
Reddit’s just one more site that I don’t have time to visit.
Hardly get time to check my emails these days, but always set a few minutes aside for JW.
Guess that’s a matter of my survival instinct kicking in…
Richard says
The so-called “Free Press” the supposed guardians of our democracies protect the enemies of democracy. They are Traitors.
mortimer says
The evil alliance of supremacist Islam and regressive Leftism continues its jihad against dissent.
You cannot say anything they disapprove. When no one is left to speak out or question or challenge, then the supremacists will begin the arrests of those who are in the way.
linnte says
Thank you Marc! Without your skills and knowledge there would be no Robert Spencer blog! I just can’t IMAGINE! Every day on Facebook where I share Roberts knowledge, more and more of my friends are beginning to post their OWN anti-jihadist information. People are learning because of you! Bless you!
Cecilia Ellis says
“Since this has all broken at Reddit, they are seeing some backlash. Currently 20 users per minute are unsubscribing.”
That is good news, Marc. Additionally, thank you for what you do — all behind the scenes — to ensure that Jihad Watch remains a premier source of current information on the unceasing chronicles of Islamic slaughter and the disingenuous efforts of political, religious, academic, and the mainstream media to distort the truth. We are blessed to have Robert Spencer, you and other contributors on the vigilant front line in this war against our Western civilization.
linnte says
Cecelia, Agreed! Every day reading this blog I pray for every person as I read their comments, and especially people like Marc and Robert. It is astounding how many brilliant minds are here. I am always honored to be able to post. I know I say stuff like this often, an may seem a bit of a mush, but it is true. It is the rare person who can debate me on Facebook about Islam because of all of you, and that means we are making head way! It’s all because of Robert and all of you! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
Norwegian says
I remember this autumn drinking cofee with a friend. I theorized a colming decline in use of “social ledia”. I hope that is on the way. It is clear to me that the social media bool has been a mana for deviant people to force normalization of madness upon the general population. People are under constant bombardment of PC-madness in our smartphone days and they dont handle it well.
I think social media might end up as some form of “mental darwinism”…intelligent people leave and the degenerated relains…I hope.
Pulling plug on Facebook anytime now…
Angemon says
Reddit facing backlash for their totalitarian push for ideological homogeneity? Free market at work 🙂
JK says
Any post about terror in Israel gets removed. When all the daily stabbings were occurring, all those stories got rolled up into a “sticky” post. The mods said it was to prevent the “local crime stories” from taking over the page. Then, when the Paris concert attacks occurred, that’s all you saw. No sticky. I asked the mods and they called me names and banned me from /worldnews.
Blangwort says
Even assuming that this rate is sustained, they would hardly notice the drop in traffic. 20 users a minute is 28800 a day. They have Millions of subscribers. This will not be noticed.
Reddit is going to have to do far worse before they notice the awfulness.
marc says
looks like they are down to 8.9m now, 240k down from where it was last night, that’s significant.
Champ says
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Marc! Bravo! You are a treasure!
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Sadly, the unvarnished and blessed Truth about islam & company is too hot for some to handle. Very strange that some prefer lies, distortions and half-truths over the facts about islam. Very strange indeed. Well, if some folks don’t want to embrace the truth, then at the *very* least, they need to read the unholy quran and hadiths for themselves and get informed. Maybe then they’ll see clear to finally hear the ugly truth about islam, muhammad, et al.
Oliver says
I never heard of Reddit, until the other day-here. BUT IN A SIMILAR VEIN.
AS ALL CAN RECALL– A FEW YEARS AGO, THE FOUNDER OF CHIK A FIL SAID THAT EH IS A CHRISTIAN, AND PERSONALLY OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE. AND A MASS UPROAR, ETC.
Well, this Sunday], a CHIK A FIL, NEAR THE SHOOTING, AND NEAR WHERE THERE WAS A BLOOD DRIVE-OPENED- FIRED UP THE GRILLS, ETC– AND PROVIDED FOOD TO ALL WHO WERE THERE ( to see if their family/friends/neighbors-etc) were alive, murdered, injured, ) and also to those donating blood, and volunteers. FREE OF CHARGE. ALL FOOD, COSTS ETC. BORNE BY THE FIRM.
AND THE MEDIA- NOT A WORD.
Sam Hawkins says
No, but the media are hugely promoting the story of an Egyptian HERO man in Orlando who donated blood while (allegedly) standing in line for five hours in 90+ degree heat and not being able to eat or drink because Ramadan (sob sob).
What the Chik Fil-A did was merely an act of kindheartedness by a white-owned fast-food chain. Unworthy of mention.
nicu says
And the DALAI LAMA is not welcomed in Germany !!! For speaking the truth !!!
Each Muslim hate preacher is warmly welcomed .
VoatGoat says
A new website exposes reddit censorship and undeletes censored comments and posts
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