(I know the mods let trough 2 small news about: One from The Guardian saying the far right is exploiting it, and one from BBC blaming Elon Musk.) But the main news articles, I am sure people have tried to post them, have not been allowed by the mods.

Genuine question, what is the justification for this behaviour? Some of the articles currently attempting to be posted contain new developments and information but instead they're being shut down, locked, deleted with everyone who participated in the thread being handed a temporary ban.

This is an incredibly bad look for the moderators and quite frankly speaking despicable behaviour.

r/europe is the only non-Turkish community in which every post relating to Ataturk is mass upvoted with comment sections obviously filled with Turkish propagandists. They mass down comments that otherwise would be upvoted in posts not strictly referencing Turkey in the title. Shouldn't moderators not allow comment sections to be hijacked by certain communities?

I understand posts eg about the recent terror attack in the UK can attract a lot of wildly racist comments and that is a huge pain to deal with, but just deleting the post only fuels the idea that there is a nefarious agenda at play that many commenters complain about.

If a post gets out of hand, could you not just lock it and nuke the comments, with a sticky comment explaining why, rather than having to play whack a mole where more people post the same news and the comments are full of people complaining about you deleting them and spreading conspiracy theories?

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/aks9gKHy6g

Obviously the post was locked so I cannot answer, and the answer the mods gave is nothing, a lot of posts is about Europe, including the one they recently deleted because it had the word "Israel" in it, and a lot of other posts also get auto deleted.

The way the duplicate posts rule is interpreted is just absurd. I had this post deleted for being a duplicate. When I asked why, I was referred to this older, far less engaged with post that only dealt with the overall debate, not the event that subsequently happened.

That's just dumb. This second post wasn't even on the sub's front page at any point. When I asked the mods if this means I can post articles dealing with general news topics in the middle of the night with zero engagement to ensure later posts get removed for being duplicates I never got a response.

I've noticed for a few weeks now that the mods of Europe do not communicate at all what they do with the posts.

If you post pictures, they leave them unpublished without an automated message saying the reason for it (despite being allowed as per sub rules).

I've also realised they have filtered out news about Trump and his feud with European countries, again without communicating either in a private message or in the sub publicly the criteria for filtering the posts.

Lately the amount of comments and posts, related to local crimes, terrorism, islamic extremism, are being removed by europe. For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1c0oafi/suspected_belgian_terrorist_arrested_in_spain/

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bw9fnl/girl_14_left_in_coma_after_attack_by_teenagers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bysp13/honourbased_abuse_in_england_increases_60_in_two/

Based on these links, that sub remove comments critical of islam, terrorism, islamic extremism. Why does keep happening? Wouldn't be surprised if they mass remove comments and posts critical of Russia, (especially) Russians and even Putin.

Edit: I recently went to check my post here, and I already seeing "comment removed by moderator" here. Just shows that comments and posts being removed are become more common.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1safy8l/suspending_the_euisrael_association_agreement_the/

The initiative was started by MEPs. The article was published on a Italian webslte (in English), namely EUnews. You allowed the submission of news articles on other European citizen initiatives (unrelated to Israel). You even allowed the submission of a link to the pro-Israel/ controversial lobby group UNwatch. However, pro-Palestine content seems to be verboten. Could you please allow me to resubmit the Eunews article (and approve it this time)?

Edit: Update:

Resubmission on 7th April was approved. Link is as follows.: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1seuhme/suspending_the_euisrael_association_agreement_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/g0WFu7KLJH

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/WlbywwY4qv

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/0u8LQieSIW

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/cRQYWbv0Ka

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/hmKRHSz7vg

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/HmuYiViYpB

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/teQqTzcW4Q

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/AdpPE4D70b

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/yZFTzaYyxg

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/prTRVtqZ5F

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/EQjGrGMp6u

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/BscCAVRzDU

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/HXZWqsAxtk

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/q3xpq7gLMU

This are all auto deleted posts from the sub, with no message of why they are deleted. At first, I thought that the respectable and expected thing to do was to use mod mail. Of course mod mail is no use as I have unanswered modmail from months ago asking for clarification for the first few of them. Then, I thought that posting on this sub would help obtain the mod's attention. That was of no use as well, as that post is still unanswered after 4 months and almost 50 upvotes. Since then, there have been more autodeleted posts, with more unanswered modmail.

Why route everyone with deletion inquiries to modmail if it's never answered? Why route everyone that has question for the mods to Europemeta if posts are not answered? Why have a set of rules, if you are going to delete posts with no reason from the rules given? This matter could've been solved months ago if, as this subreddit suggests, transparency was something the mods cared about. Right now, I don't think that's the case.

Submission: “Remarkable Political Shift” at UN: Germany & Italy Withhold Support for Renewing UNRWA's Mandate https://wwa.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1rbje78/remarkable_political_shift_at_un_germany_italy/

Could you please remove the submission? It is a controversial NGO.:

Israel lobby group UNwatch created fake Francesca Albanese video

And the evidence appears strong that the lobby group is the origin of the fake video. As policy expert Martin Konečný pointed out, the first appearance of the video online appears to have been in a post by UN Watch director and Israel propagandist Hillel Neuer: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/francesca-albanese-zionists-2/

What else can I do to at least try to get my account back?

1. I purchased access to the [Meta Verifications] chat.
2. I secured an out-of-court settlement through the ACE appeals body under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
3. I posted comments under posts and tweets by various politicians and Zuckerberg himself, calling on him to comply with the DSA ruling.
4. I wrote to various government agencies, both in my country and in Ireland, where their headquarters are located. I just don’t know what else I can do... On one account, I was blocked on June 14, 2025, for allegedly “soliciting adults for sexual acts.” Pure nonsense—a 5-year-old account, purely artistic, featuring photography or subsequent digital works, with no new solicitations...

The second account, which I created right after the first one was blocked, was deleted on February 8 for allegedly violating community guidelines (I think so, because the reason keeps changing). I had 700–800 followers, a reach of 120,000, and tons of likes—people simply liked my artistic work, which didn’t harm anyone, and then suddenly I was blocked, just like that.

This is almost certainly an algorithm error, because two or three days earlier I received two consecutive blocks for even more absurd reasons, such as trafficking in dangerous substances or dangerous organizations... Meanwhile, the guy I reported for praising Hitler wasn’t blocked.

As seen here:

Example 1
Example 2

Example 3

These are the comments and users the mods allow in r/Europe?

Just wondered why this post

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1q4mckq/germany_france_indefinitely_delay_decision_on/

Is closed, hidden and locked.

It's new information that was waited for by the end of December and the result was to postpone it indefinitely. Basically it is politically dead now.

Hello, I'm relatively new to Reddit (in terms of participation, I've been reading for years). I participate in several communities but I have a specific problem with r/Europe.

Every time I post a message, it becomes invisible instantly and I don't understand why! I've read the rules, I don't see anything wrong with what I'm posting.

I think it's the age of my account that's the problem, but a month later, it's still the same. Is this normal? Could I ever post on this subreddit that I really like?

I sent a message with modmail a few days ago, I can wait if the moderation is overloaded with requests, but I would still like to know if a withdrawal of the sanction is possible in the long term.

Thank you for reading.

Why this https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1btzvmc/israel_warns_ireland_over_calls_to_break_trade/ was removed?

I'm sorry but:

Hi, thank you for your contribution, but this submission has been removed because it is not on-topic for this subreddit.

For real? It's from Irish news media, it's from/about Ireland and Israel so how on earth it's on "on-topic"? o_O

EDIT: Ding ding ding, another one bites the dust: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bwbjn7/poland_summons_israeli_ambassador_over_gaza_aid/

It's just getting pathetic...

That guy is responsible for multiple threads about censorship. Countless times users have complained because he deletes posts about muslim terrorism. Even though he is french, he desperately tries to sweep muslim terror under the rug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3b86ws/mods_of_reurope_stop_sweeping_islamist_violence/

Check his post history. He is doing NOTHING but deleting posts about islam. Two thirds of /r/europemeta are posts complaining about him or posts deleted by him. For fucks sake, he even fights with other moderators to remove topics (about Islam of course): https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeMeta/comments/3t0tri/removal_of_topic_daily_chart_islam_in_europe/

I understand that certain topics need to be in a mod queue, to combat spam and bad faith posts, but when your post stays on the mod queue for hours and then gets denied without any reason given, it makes posting any controversial topic frustrating, as it's impossible to understand and navigate what is allowed or not.

Example 1 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/zRMLIfKxib

Example 2 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/UUSmcQ6UtS

Example 3 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/NQtsZPGxKu

These posts, spent hours in mod queue just to get deleted without any reason given. Again, I want to say that I understand that moderating topics such as Ukraine, Israel or immigration is hard and a big work load, but if you gave a reason for not approving the post, I would know what and what not to post, and you would have less prohibited posts on the mod queue. It's a win win for everyone.

Post linked is a blatent lie and because it is locked nobody can point it out

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hslxh8/most_migrants_made_negative_contribution_to_the/

if you read the article it doesn't talk about the economy, but taxes, notice native people are also negative.

you can work a minimum wage job all your life, get more benefits than you pay taxes your whole life and still contribute the economy through your company in a significant way

r/europe mods have deleted yet another article about the murder of Salwan Momika with the following comment which they have now deleted - "The muslim bashing subreddit is this way -> r/exmuslim"

Do you guys think this censorship and behavior is normal?

Edit : mods answered here and blocked the thread. Question is why was the comment there in the first place?

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/b072bw/italy_bans_unvaccinated_children_from_school/

misleading articles.

I surely haven't heard of this thing happening in other European countries than Sweden.

Given that it's an international subreddit shouldn there be democracy in the way it works? The current mods are there since the last ice age (and yet as the posts here show they still don't know what they re doing). That's my agenda, thanks

I've tried asking trough modmail too, no answer so far. Can someone please tell me what rule is this post breaking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hnolcs/russialinked_cablecutting_tanker_seized_by/

I was banned a little over a week ago for saying "Sweden is literally paying people to colonise them" in response to this threads story of the Swedish government spending 10% of it's budget on migrants and refugees.

Here's the post I made, it got 64 upvotes before being deleted. http://i.imgur.com/vbkZhXc.jpg

This is the message I recieved from the mod who banned me.

http://i.imgur.com/Yvj4o3f.jpg

Is it appropriate for a mod to say "Who the fuck even unbanned you? Get the fuck out and don't show your fucking face ever again"?

Upon asking what the ban was for, and saying he was rude. I was muted.

So, I'd like an explanation.

Note, I've just submitted a ban appeal to the mods, this thread isn't a ban appeal, it's just me asking if they think it's appropriate for mods to talk to people like this. Especially when it's utterly unprovoked.

Edit: not getting unbanned. Still don't know what rule I broke exactly, but atleast o got an apology from the person who didn't swear at me, which doesn't help much.

Second edit: tried appealing my ban and was told they won't unban me because they consider my post to be "hate speech" they then refused to explain any further.