[keewee7]

r/worldnews has become the default news aggregator of the world. Journalists around the world use that subreddit to gauge which topics interests people.

That is why it's concerning that the modding and mod selection process on big subreddits like r/worldnews is so opaque.

[asdff]

It's a pretty poor pulse on whats actually interesting to people honestly. Might as well just subscribe to publishers RSS feeds, you will get about the same content. Look at the post histories of these accounts that make these top posts. Very strange post histories, sometimes only making posts to worldnews. It's not exactly rocket science to operate a botnet that posts your articles all over relevant subreddits, even operate a ring of accounts to upvote a post enough to get it rolling in hot and upvoted organically from there on by users who tend to just roll with whats slightly upvoted.

[crazy_horse]

Not to be pedantic, but why do you say this? Is it really that visible?