Censorship that masquerade behind…
Censorship that masquerade behind "reducing toxicity" and making internet the better place.
By Aleksandr S.
Saturday, November 7, 2026 · Customer reviews of US businesses
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OpenWeb is on a mission to inspire and elevate quality conversations online. We build technologies to create thriving engaged communities, reduce toxicity, and increase safety — improving the quality of civil discourse and supporting independent journalism. Today, OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers that use our platform and host 100 million monthly active users.
OpenWeb (openweb.com) has 105 customer reviews on The Fair Hearing, with an average rating of 1.4 out of 5.
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Censorship that masquerade behind "reducing toxicity" and making internet the better place.
By Aleksandr S.
Total censorship of Conservative voices on the Fox News app. Raging leftists can post any vile thing but when we respond, our message "is not currently available."
By Lisa and C.
The worst. That’s all there is to be said.
By Sven
Selective enforcement of comments, arbitrary bans. Power gone mad from people who have no real talent and got bored.
By Jack
They'll reject a comment with no explanation as to why and then the article being commented on is no longer accessible from that medium.
By Jennifer M.
What OpenWeb has been doing for the past 2 years alone is very obvious, easily to be captured through data, and these platforms should be criminal. This platform outright censors anyone and anything that does not serve THEIR rhetoric (provided as a contractual third-party service). This is not conspiracy but has been proven through several trials and data runs on multiple accounts placed all over the world. In short, their censorship is aimed particularly at the conservative profiles and comments at the same time allowing other hateful comments that are more leaning to the left (again we aren't confirming political biases outright but are comparing the inconsistencies). So in other words when they ultimately tally up the user tendencies, on both extremes, what one user is allowed to post and have passed is not equal to what the other is allowed to post and have passed with the same historical profiles i.e. two profiles, each to both extremes, and then intersecting in order prove the outcome. We also found that they were softly moderating in 2022 and JUST SO HAPPENS to ramp up beginning Jan. 1 2024 due to it being an election year so the censorship is even more rampant. Go to Yahoo news and look at every article/comment section and look for yourself.
By Boobah
If you don't agree with what "they believe" they will REJECT your comments. There should be an option for ZERO stars
By Jeff N.
Openweb proclaims that it wants conversations to be decent and civil, but in the end, it is not just trying to reign in on what it perceives as inappropriate language, it also discriminates based on people's opinion
By Charles M.