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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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  • 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

“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 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 grantf14
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

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1 review
14 helpful votes
October 22nd, 2016

It's a good website. The stories are real, they're not fake. The problem as with a lot of websites is the comments section. If you support anyone besides Hillary Clinton you will get attacked in the comments section. Even if you supported Bernie you will get attacked. Even if the article has nothing to do with politics, you will get attacked for having supported Bernie. The majority of the people that attack you are bitter old women with cats as their avatar.

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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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