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RawStory has a rating of 1.61 stars from 109 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about RawStory most frequently mention comment section, and fake news problems. RawStory ranks 510th among News Other sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Raw Story assembles headlines from various journals, news agencies, and pertinent videos.”

Denise B.
4/17/22

Raw Story assembles headlines from various and mostly mainstream news agencies. It is pro US democracy. I consider it to be a news service that shares articles and videos whose sources are clearly identified. Raw story allows access to content that might otherwise only be available by subscription and has links to the sources (which may or may not require a subscription.) I support Raw Story for this reason.

Top Critical Review

“Clickbait and fake news”

karen z.
11/10/23

Designed to rile up us left – leaners, this supposed new site is full of Clickbait headlines, fake stories that they remove later, and riddled with grammatical errors. Hardly a trusted news source. As a former journalist, I'm appalled. I've attached a sample of one of their Clickbait headlines. Oh, and you probably can't read that article unless you pay. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

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Thumbnail of user herbp34
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 24th, 2024

Only allows for left leaning comments no matter how bad, and never an opposing view. They are scared little wimps with fake news. Recent clickbait saying Trump has dementia. I guess they don't recognize Joe Biden, the baffled nursing home resident who thinks he is President.

Thumbnail of user karenz952
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 10th, 2023

Designed to rile up us left – leaners, this supposed new site is full of Clickbait headlines, fake stories that they remove later, and riddled with grammatical errors. Hardly a trusted news source. As a former journalist, I'm appalled. I've attached a sample of one of their Clickbait headlines. Oh, and you probably can't read that article unless you pay. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

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Thumbnail of user wweishaupt
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 25th, 2023

I've been visiting RawStory for a while. First and foremost, its business model is built around generating clickbait. Stories are often embellished into one-sided narratives that are clumsily summarized into headlines specifically worded to draw views from a particular segment of the politically-active population. 95% of the articles aren't about issues, but rather focus on what the rotten Republican bogeymen have done today, with a particular emphasis placed on Trump. As someone who is fairly left-leaning and anti-Trump myself, I can straight up state that it's overboard even for my tastes.

The comment section is about as nasty an echo chamber as you're going to find. Don't you dare dip your foot in the comments if you have a point of disagreement with some of what's being said or if you aren't an ardent anti-theist -- RSers love their religion bashing and are more than willing to tell you where you can shove your belief in God if you don't toe their line, even if you agree with them on practically everything else. Religion is the root of all problems, at least in the RSer mind.

There are much better left-leaning blogs and news aggregators out there. RawStory is full of the type of leftist readership that's willing to defenestrate all ability to accomplish the supposedly vital aims to which it pays desperate lip service, just so long as it's allowed to rest in its smug self-satisfied beliefs with a minimum of push back.

Thumbnail of user jmassetti57
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 5th, 2023

I take my time to research subjects especially when it sounds fishy. When you are a tabloid that is so one sided it's impossible to get factual information. They seem to go hand and hand wiht occupy democrats which either flat out lies or tells half truths at best. Folks the end doesn't justify the means and poor inaccurate journalism is disgraceful.

Thumbnail of user suem1328
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 11th, 2023

Every time I go to the site I get a pop up saying my membership has expired. So now you have to pay to read their crappy articles.

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Thumbnail of user maryg2172
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
December 9th, 2021

I'm giving Rawstory 3stars for content. But because there billing department sucks balls it does not get 5 stars. I have no issues with its content. It's a left leaning site. If you go to a right leaning site you get the same.
But my issue goes back 6 months. I was paying for a subscription and still had ads. It took me 2 months to get someone to answer me. Then when his suggestions didn't work I still had the same problem, but was getting billed twice a month. I email and email with no reply. Then finally got a reply. I had stopped going into my account. I wanted all my money back since at least August. They refused. I kept asking to cancel and no reply. This girl that did reply last week just started. Refused to turn me over to someone with more clout and had worked longer. Told me she has now canceled me but no $ back at all. So they received at least 2 or 3 months double payments and then from August through Nov as well payment for something I did not use.
Therefore they are an unethical company.
I couldn't believe it. They stand for justice. Just not with there own company.
They want to steal my hard earned $ durning a pandemic from a single mom with a special needs child well, it's not something big enough to sue them. But I can sure blast them everywhere I have a chance too.
My last straw was this girl. She tried to dismiss me over and over. She showed me.
Here are payments made and I didn't even post all the photos.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t give up your $ too quickly. You may not get anything in return. Or they may screw it up and double charge you.

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Thumbnail of user robertw367
3 reviews
26 helpful votes
March 16th, 2023

I don't think I have ever read more unethical sleazy articles than what these low sc--m newspapers put out.

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100 percent unethical BS news statin

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Thumbnail of user ss1063
1 review
3 helpful votes
January 8th, 2023

Typos galore, gotcha titles of articles that don't reflect the title,
And sometimes, poor writing. After alerting them to typos a year ago, no change at all.

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Thumbnail of user daleh455
1 review
6 helpful votes
July 30th, 2022

NO one takes these people and their 4th grade education level nonsensical fiction seriously. They are universally scoffed at and ridiculed as total garbage,. Theyve faced HUNDREDS of fines and forced retractions

Tip for consumers:
Avoid them. Pull any and all advertising. Report to oversight for fines retractions and seizure of platform

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Thumbnail of user evelynw379
1 review
4 helpful votes
November 19th, 2022

Have found that raw story is like so many so-called liberal news sites, they ban u if u post anything that doesn't toe the party line, ie posting anything negative about israel, or illegals. Not all dems are cookie cutter dems. I got banned, so good riddance to typo riddled, cutting and pasting fr other news sites. I go to the guardian news now

Thumbnail of user chrisk1277
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
January 11th, 2021

I used to read the articles on raw story and comment. Apparently they cannot handle the opinion of those who do not fawn on assange and trump. For no real reason i was banned by a invisible moderator. While foul mouthed users continue to post regularly. This site sucks. Its as bad as natural news where comments are "moderated" or censored for being truthful, yet foul mouthed cursing is approved. And suddenly people are worried about censorship because twitter banned a whining attention whore trump? Lets laugh.

Thumbnail of user brucek290
1 review
11 helpful votes
May 24th, 2021

Paid $95 to be done with ads. Never happened. Impossible to contact. They resisted and lost when I got my credit card company to reverse the charge

Thumbnail of user jltraweek
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
August 21st, 2023

I became a subscriber when David Cay Johnston was involved. Now all RS does is upsell & dangle news.

Thumbnail of user dianer1604
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 28th, 2022

If you are female, don't go here. I didn't like the P*ssy expletive. When I complained, my comment was removed.

Thumbnail of user hectorh129
1 review
4 helpful votes
September 9th, 2022

Total unreliable left extremism lacking any hard facts. They pick and choose quotes and mischaracterize what people actually say. Tabloids have more credibility than this rag.

Thumbnail of user kevinl2330
5 reviews
4 helpful votes
July 24th, 2023

RawStory allows zero disagreement. You can't speak out against top commenters, and you cant speak out against RawStory authors. The site will ban you. The moderators have too much control of the site. I would have been a paid member years ago if the site wasn't so screwy. I love most of what RawStory does, but you best check sources before sharing. Some of the writers of the site are off in lala land, and the moderators are near communist in how they moderate the site. Best to just share links if appropriate, and not even waste time trying to commuincate errors. If you communicate errors, you will be banned from this fascist site, and I say that as a liberal.

Tip for consumers:
Good site to share links, but if you try to provide constructive feedback, you will be banned. It's kind of a cult.

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Thumbnail of user sandrad2229
1 review
3 helpful votes
December 17th, 2022

Can Raw Story find someone or something other than TRUMP to write about? Every damn story is about him, Come-on, REALLY?

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Thumbnail of user brittanyl132
1 review
13 helpful votes
March 4th, 2020

This is clearly a propaganda site. You can tell because none of the articles ever actually have footage, videos, or witness quotes. They see something "interesting" and write about it without even getting a story straight. Sorry, but that's just not journalism. Go out and investigate before you just write about it.

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2 reviews
33 helpful votes
May 15th, 2019
• Updated review

The recent across the board rise of paywalls by the sites they pull their stories from so all the links have been blocked reduces the free use of this site unfortunately.

While I too have a leftward bent, knowing how liberal this site is makes me want to read the article their synopsis came from so I can understand the context and make a reasoned judgement from the actual real deal.

You cannot just depend on a synopsis no matter where your politics lay. A synopsis is just one person's opinion of the article and they will try to bend the synopsis according to their own biases.

This is true of many newsletters from various sources. It is coming down to just the wire services themselves to get the free version and a more neutral interpretations.

I find it a good aggregate site.
April 26th, 2017
• Previous review

Like most, I was suspicious of the site at first, but the stories have proven true in every case I have read. I double check each story that sounds "to good to be true" but googling the key phrase and finding at least one reliable "other" source. Some days I do not find them. But in a day or two, it is being reported in one of those sources.
I haven't found any "3-headed babies" like RW tabloids where they proudly eschew fact-checking. Fact-checking is for limp wrist liberals...
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
Isaac Asimov

Thumbnail of user chrisk382
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
January 18th, 2019

These guys banned me for questioning their journalistic credibility and saying their website sucks. This just proves that they are a bunch of $#*! and can't handle opposing views. Echo chamber central here full of brainwashed morons.

Thumbnail of user picklesy
1 review
15 helpful votes
April 11th, 2019

Who writes their news articles for this joke news site? It's like they gave down syndrome monkeys the keys to the newsroom and said write stupid monkey or it's back to reruns of Michael O'bama's package bounce around on the Ellen Degeneres show. My God the Trump Derangement Syndrome they suffer from is a hilarious source of entertainment. Your crappy fake news site deserves the pathetic two stars you get.

Thumbnail of user joeo536
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 4th, 2022

They have serious TDS... President Trump lives rent free in there puny brains. Lets Go Brandon... FJB

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Thumbnail of user maryg611
1 review
15 helpful votes
June 12th, 2019

Since the new format of Rawstory, all I get is severe crashing. I used to go to this site every morning because I liked the 2-3 paragraph stories that would brief me on the previous night's activities. I will be deleting Rawstory with regret. I can no longer stand having to reboot just because I clicked on a story.

Thumbnail of user deniseb35
2 reviews
47 helpful votes
April 17th, 2022

Raw Story assembles headlines from various and mostly mainstream news agencies. It is pro US democracy. I consider it to be a news service that shares articles and videos whose sources are clearly identified. Raw story allows access to content that might otherwise only be available by subscription and has links to the sources (which may or may not require a subscription.) I support Raw Story for this reason.

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Headlines from around the US and the world in one convenient place. Raw Story is pro American democracy.

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Thumbnail of user westofd
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 27th, 2021

Became a solid process after a while. Initially needed 3X log-in to clear ads, then been working fine. Now, new app for log-in is non-responsive... doesn't acknowledge entry (good or bad) and doesn't clear ads. Also, so way to communicate this issue except by this channel.

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