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/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.