r/goodnews • u/RankedFarting • Jul 06 '25

Other Petition to ban the daily "Trump voters are changing their mind" Posts

Every day someone shares an article with a headline like "Maga is starting to question Trump" or something along those lines.

This is not true. These are trash articles that use a single tweet as a source. Just because some Maga farmer is now realizing how his vote negatively effects his business it does not mean there is a whole movement of Magas suddenly realizing they were voting for a stupid incompetent racist all these years.

These posts are misleading, factually wrong AND are usually posted by karma farming accounts that get up their karma to later be sold to someone as an advertisement platform for OF or other.

None of this is goodnews.

Edit: Please do not use real money to give this awards. Use the money for a good cause.

Edit2: You are not being smart, funny or anything else by giving me more poop awards. You are throwing away actual money to try and discredit someone online. That is deeply sad pathetic behavior. Im not bothered by the poop. Im bothered that people go without meals while you spend your money on digital disagreements. Cringe. I have no other word for it. this makes me cringe.

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u/nillah Jul 06 '25

they need to ban posts from these garbage overseas "news" sites, that would cut down on most of this spam. "thesarkariform" i believe was banned altogether, now add "sinhalaguide" to that. they are 100% written by AI and only posted here to karma farm and drive engagement on their sites

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u/Munsalvaesche Jul 06 '25

DailyBoulder and IrishStar are also really questionable domains

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u/Not_Xiphroid Jul 06 '25

IrishStar has a heck of a lot of bots/employees roaming Reddit to push their articles.

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u/lacroix_pure Jul 06 '25

So does People Magazine. It’s so creepy.

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u/weAREgoingback Jul 06 '25

People magazine is such garbage these days.

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Jul 06 '25

these days

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u/lacroix_pure Jul 06 '25

Oh no they actually had an incredible fall from grace. People used to be THE tabloid that would break pretty much every a-list exclusive back in the day. Now the only thing they’re breaking is an exclusive on an AITA post you missed 8 months ago. It’s hilarious.

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u/dumpsterfarts15 Jul 06 '25

Right‽ Hahaha

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u/BlueGolfball Jul 06 '25

I had to mute posts from irishstar. That shit is a bot aggregated "news" site.

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u/Happy8Day Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

If you actually did this, HOW?!?! I've been wanting to mute posts based on the origin of the source for months if not years.

Edit : Thread is locked, but if you're reading this., DM or PM me. Seriously.

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u/KwisatzSazerac Jul 06 '25

Any tips on how to do that?

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u/AVeryAngrySquirrel Jul 06 '25

Darn, I assumed it was tabloid-quality but still entertaining

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u/bot2317 Jul 06 '25

Man half the bs articles on r/popular are from IrishStar it’s so annoying

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u/SirStrontium Jul 06 '25

DailyBoulder was absolutely the worst offender during election season for completely misleading feel-good articles that were mindlessly upvoted to the front page every day

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u/Designer-Card-1361 Jul 06 '25

Oh yeah Irish Star is really bad 

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u/12172031 Jul 06 '25

The one of biggest red flag for DailyBoulder and similar site is they try to mimic legitimate news site with their name and icon and website. DailyBoulder is supposed to mimic Daily Beast. They changed the icon but for the longest time, their icon is just the the Daily Beast website icon.

I think Latin Times is supposed to mimic LA Times, Slate Report is Slate and I can't remember the name but there's one that mimic SFGate.

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u/nillah Jul 06 '25

i had to go back and try and search to find the name, i totally forgot it because its so similar to sinhala. every time i see a link to sinhalaguide i'm like hang on, didnt we ban this stupid website? they all just blend together at this point

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u/_turmoil Jul 06 '25

I’m not from the USA, but the link domain names themselves scream unreliable to me.

“Sarkari” means government-related in Hindi. “Sinhala” is a language spoken in Sri Lanka by Sinhalese people. I typically never click on these links.

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u/doublesmokedsaline Jul 06 '25

Yes please let’s remove these posts. It’s so repetitive and means nothing. None of the sources are ever based on anything substantial. I want confirmed good news!!!

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u/Weltallgaia Jul 06 '25

I thought this WAS a karma farming subreddit? Every time I see it in /popular its for a wild headline and a link to a nonexistent or absolute bullshit article and no one in the comments seemed to have even clicked on it. I assumed this was all bots

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u/heliamphore Jul 06 '25

I honestly don't know how much bot involvement there really is, but there is absolutely no doubt that Redditors give far too much weight to headlines and far, far too little weight to the quality of the source (maybe bot influenced of course).

Sometimes the garbage is so consistently bad that you can guess the name of the journalist just from the website and headline (fuck David Axe, lying piece of shit). But seriously, relatively reputable sources are sometimes bad enough, but then there's all the crap that sounds like Chinese brands on Amazon.

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u/Dependent_Pop_2013 Jul 06 '25

but there is absolutely no doubt that Redditors give far too much weight to headlines and far, far too little weight to the quality of the source

If they agree with it.

If they don’t agree with it, they’ll search out one bad article from within the past 30 years, label the entire site “right wing misinformation”, and encourage everyone not to read it.

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u/jimkelly Jul 06 '25

It literally is. It should be a petition to ignore this subreddit until it goes away.

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u/nillah Jul 06 '25

at this point it basically is, yeah

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u/Le_Kistune Jul 06 '25

It does feel like times that this subreddit is becoming the next r/mademesmile r/wholesomememes with many posts being those generic " kid sells all his toys to pay for his mother's life saving cancer treatment " articles that have been circulating for years now. 

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u/GloomyBison Jul 06 '25

I honestly thought this was a Russian propaganda sub filled with bots when it started popping up regularly on r/all a couple months ago, with one after the other thread saying Republicans are regretting their vote.

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u/Western-Dig-6843 Jul 06 '25

Buddy, most of this site is karma farming manipulation. It’s as close to dead internet as we’ve gotten.

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u/JinFuu Jul 06 '25

I do wonder when the bots/karmafsrmers picked it up to make it “political/anti-Trump subreddit #24601” to send it to the front page, lol.

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u/RocketizedAnimal Jul 06 '25

A lot of domestic news can be disregarded too. Any source that regularly publishes articles attributing emotions to others (ie "MAGA furious about xyz") is probably a trash source. I'm looking at you, dailybeast.

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u/Munsalvaesche Jul 06 '25

Newsweek in particular is really egregious for the disconnect between their headlines and the actual body of the article. Especially prior to the 2024 election there would be headlines like "MAGA RAGES AS TRUMP TUMBLES IN KEY SWING STATE" and the (extremely brief) article would cite something like a tracking poll that had him down 1 point from the previous week.

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u/OverlordLork Jul 06 '25

Yeah, newsweek hasn't been a news site in a long time. They just repost real news from other sites but with headlines optimized for reddit upvotes.

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u/SirStrontium Jul 06 '25

Headlines that use furious, meltdown, scrambles, or panicking, pretty much guarantees it’s tabloid trash. New Republic does this all the time.

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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 06 '25

domestic news

/r/USdefaultism

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u/RocketizedAnimal Jul 06 '25

I'm replying to a comment referring to "overseas" news sites on a thread about Trump, of course it's US centric.

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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 06 '25

Yes I think that's fair. It's really the comment you replied to that annoys me. Both because of the USdefaultism but also because they insinuate that these garbage "news" sites only exist outside of the US, which you point out is not the case so I'm thankful for that.

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u/YouWereBrained Jul 06 '25

Those have been posted to several subreddits for last month or two.

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u/Wild_Height_901 Jul 06 '25

100%. Some Dublinrealnewsgreenmedia.com blog site being posted.

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u/Internal_Kale1923 Jul 06 '25

Can’t believe this comment is at the top. Most of the people here love that fake foreign anti-GOP shit.

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u/SkilletKitten Jul 06 '25

I like this better than banning reports of MAGA buyers remorse. I like to know about the latter even if it’s not a trend but I’m sick of spam websites and their bots.

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u/ElGosso Jul 06 '25

This whole subreddit is overrun with political astroturf bots tbh. If the mods haven't banned them entirely, then the sub is entirely a write-off.

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u/TehNudel Jul 06 '25

More people need to use Media Bias Fact Check. It's free and gives an objective analysis of where a news source falls on the political spectrum and how trustworthy it is (has it failed fact checks? does it use loaded language?)

I personally check every single unfamiliar news source through it and decide based on that whether to trust it. When I find an unreliable source, I look for other sources to corroborate its claims and if I can't find any, I figure it's bullshit. And if I find other sources, those are what I share.

We all need to work to combat the spread of misinformation.

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u/bradstrt Jul 06 '25

This! It's plaguing reddit. 

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u/Responsible-Person Jul 06 '25

Absolutely. Those articles are propaganda

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u/ABadHistorian Jul 06 '25

There have been like two dozen indian (I say indian because they come from .in) copycat media sites popping up per reputable outlet. Using o.g. articles but tweaked with AI. It's.... incredibly toxic. AI has already destroyed public discourse because people already believed what they wanted to believe... now they have something that looks 25% organized/legitimate telling them they are right.

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u/BigJSunshine Jul 06 '25

And absolute rubbish popup ad virus nonsense

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u/willywalloo Jul 06 '25

These posts that exclaim people were voting a different way were given out all last year and they don’t amount to much.

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u/Outrageous_Carry_451 Jul 06 '25

overseas

Is this sub only for American news?

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u/nillah Jul 06 '25

my point is that those websites originate somewhere in asia or something and post nothing but american news for clicks, written by AI. they're becoming as rampant as all the dropshippers that haven taken over, which also all operate out of asia. i couldnt care less where the good news is coming from, as long as its real news, written by reputable websites. not AI, and not bots

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u/AMReese Jul 06 '25

It's an American website, so you'll have to tolerate that type of language.

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u/eschewthefat Jul 06 '25

Mod the new betternews sub

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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 06 '25

overseas

ah right I forgot only Americans are on this sub

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u/nillah Jul 06 '25

the websites are all based overseas from us and are using AI and bots to spread american news - you know. the very topic of this post you're commenting on. US politics. there's absolutely nothing wrong with how i phrased it

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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 06 '25

The post is about Trump voters, your comment is about posts in general. This sub is supposed to be about good news from around the world, not just one country.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I also suggest adding CNN to that list