Lemmy.world /news mods enforce personal bias and remove websites not listed in their blocklist
The moderators have a source blocklist in their rule set. Mintpress is not listed in it.
That Mintpress?
MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[7] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda,[8] and has been described as a conspiratorial website by media studies and disinformation scholars.[9][10]
LOL. Y'all should check out the imperial NyTimes.
Can say the same about virtually any Western media outlet pushing lies about Libya or Israel now for that matter.
YDI. A blocklist is not an exhaustive resource of unreliable sources that will not be accepted, it just hits the most common unreliable sources.
The rule says check the blocklist for not allowed sources. If the mods decide a source unreliable they should add it to their blocklist.
Even funnier that New York Post is allowed but discouraged.
NPH (no power tripping here) it’s likely they just forgot to update the sidebar and this could have been solved by a quick convo with the mods.
i would not say YDI (you deserved it) tho as it’s not even punishment or silencing to get a mod action like this. they are keeping the community in shape—that doesn’t mean you are in trouble.
100% PTB, but why even use worldnews community at .world? It's nothing more than an inferior version of reddit: the same echo chamber of western narratives, but with less activity and less content.