It did get covered up, look at the downvote-brigading. And the shills going "ha ha idiot OP didn't change the title so his submission wouldn't get censored like always happens to his submissions; don't you realize the article says we will probably die and not that we will die? clearly nobody needs to know about this!"
Have you not seen all the posts to /v/funny upvote-brigaded to over +300 complaining that /v/news has too much actual news, with brand new accounts agreeing and advising people to use /r/news and Google News instead?
[–] Onlio 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
I'm surprised this news got reported and not covered up
[–] SarMegahhikkitha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
It did get covered up, look at the downvote-brigading. And the shills going "ha ha idiot OP didn't change the title so his submission wouldn't get censored like always happens to his submissions; don't you realize the article says we will probably die and not that we will die? clearly nobody needs to know about this!"
Have you not seen all the posts to /v/funny upvote-brigaded to over +300 complaining that /v/news has too much actual news, with brand new accounts agreeing and advising people to use /r/news and Google News instead?