Here is the thread from /r/conspiracy, which tells most of the story

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5rohtb/the_term_pizzagate_is_now_shadowbanned_in_rnews/

All I did was point out the suspicious action of one user. "Didn't accuse him of breaking rules". Didn't try to get him banned. Didn't care if he did get banned. Just literally laughed (and literally laughed at loud) at the suspicious activity that seemed to be indicative of someone using two accounts at once.

Once that narrative broke down, the mod admitted it was my tone that was the real problem. Dropping too many fiery truthbombs or something. Either way I literally broke no rules and more importantly once the edits were made to call them out they nuked the post (despite being a sub largely devoted to mod abuse).

That sub is compromised IMO.

But more important is the /r/news shadowbanning, obviously. I thought it was suspicious when I hit ctr F and searched for "pizza" on a thread on the front page about pedophilia and came back with no results. Then after I posted my comment it dawned on me, "They probably shadowbanned the entire term". Logged and sure enough, it was shadowbanned. Immediately posted the exact same comment with the term "pizzagate" switched out and boom it appeared like magic.

Try it yourself, also the original comments are in my post history if you don't believe me. You can click on permalink and sign out to see for yourself.

I believe they use different filters for different threads, as this is not the first time I've seen this happen, but the criteria doesn't always seem to be the same. So if you want to test it yourself, test it on that specific thread, not a different one.

But basically anytime you post on /r/news or /r/todayilearned you should click permalink and sign out first just make sure your comment actually went through and got accepted. On those subs I find, depending on age of the account and Karma, half of the threads I am unable to comment on.

Reddit is using a very advanced shadowbanning system these days, and it's one that's very hard to keep track of and one that very few people know about. At least back in the day when they used to shadowban your entire ID everyone knew about it. But this is a "secret" practice they don't do publicly. That's what makes it so malicious.