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Overview

RawStory has a rating of 1.6 stars from 108 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 506th among News Other sites.

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  • Echo chamber central here full of brainwashed morons.
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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

“This is site is a joke.”

Herb P.
2/24/24

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.

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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 geeboh
1 review
16 helpful votes
May 17th, 2019

Several years ago Rawstory was okay, had some interesting and accurate articles, but now they're kind of like a liberal version of Breitbart. I ended up blacklisting them after seeing one clickbait article after another. Even if there is a grain of truth in their articles, they are written specifically to push buttons, not inform. There are much better sources out there.

Thumbnail of user laurah555
1 review
18 helpful votes
February 18th, 2019

Raw Story likes to present itself as hip and edgy. In reality they are thin-skinned and selectively punitive. People get away with a lot of really vile comments, but just try leveling even a gentle criticism of any of their policy and you might find yourself banned like I am. No great loss.

Thumbnail of user bones2
1 review
22 helpful votes
March 6th, 2016

Wow, they blocked me from their site and removed all my posts, none of which violated their "terms of service". Go figure. All I did was defend my position that a 4 minute video they posted did not provide enough information to come to any conclusion about whether a cop was racially profiling someone or not. That's it. I was called $#*!, moron, and all those posts remain up. Mine have all been removed and blocked! Dang. I hate censorship! Just for saying there's not enough information, then defending myself from the onslaught attacks.

Thumbnail of user lanceh40
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
June 3rd, 2018

I usually visit Raw Story daily. There are a few problematic issues. 1. Frequent sensationalist headlines that are not supported by the story. Some are blatantly in error. The editorial staff completely ignore any issues you bring to their attention. 2, The comment section. For some crazy reason I expected to be able to speak freely and wow was I wrong. For pointing out a glaring error in the comment section I was viciously attacked by someone and I have no clue why. It was mainly one line insults. Another is that one should never dare to express any support of Spirituality for the same reason. I made the shocking discovery that progressives are just as bigoted as any right wing zealot. So in the end I say read if you choose but before jumping entirely onto any particular story you may want to do a little cross checking for accuracy otherwise you might just look like a fool. Tread carefully there.

Thumbnail of user tpn1
1 review
5 helpful votes
January 10th, 2018

They banned me for saying something bad, but when I read others readers on there they weren't banned. They said far worse. Where do I go to ask them to take me off the ban list

Thumbnail of user briana238
1 review
7 helpful votes
November 16th, 2017

If you post anything that is anti-Hillary Clinton or if you point out the fact that the DNC rigged the election against Bernie Sanders your comment will be removed and you will be banned. The Raw Story Mods. Allow HRC supporters to use foul language and to insult 3rd party voters. However, if you fight back or stand up to these angry HRC supporters the Raw Story admins will delete your comments. So basically if the Mods at Raw Story don't agree with your viewpoint they will remove your comment and ban you. The Raw Story is nothing more than a biased one sided pro-Hillary Clinton site.

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Raw Story is an independent news site that focuses on stories often ignored in the mainstream media. In addition to giving coverage to the top stories of the day, we also bring our readers' attention to policy, politics, legal and human rights stories...

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