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I think some major newspapers are 'downvoted' by default, as so many off-topic articles from them are posted. I think I read this from a comment from dang.

• dang 3y ago
  Yes, nearly all major media sites have a mild downweight, as do most of the tech sites that mostly recycle the same stories. We don't ban these sites, because all of them occasionally produce solid original articles. But we downrank them because if we didn't, the frontpage would consist of little else—and many readers still feel they're over-represented, even with the downranking.