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>- When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." >- If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. > >\- Mikhail Bakunin
Project 2025 proposed targeting local officials who resist mass deportation. Trump is following through.
>President Donald Trump is following through on a policy put forward by Project 2025 that calls for federal law enforcement to investigate, and potentially criminally prosecute, local authorities who refuse to cooperate with his administration’s mass deportation plans. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order — and his Department of Justice released a subsequent memo — that put the Project 2025 proposal into practice.
The Truth in Journalism Project offers new, inclusive ways to think about checking facts, affirming truth, and building trust.
>As journalism students, Allison Baker and Viviane Fairbank ran into tricky questions about fact-checking and journalism ethics that they couldn’t find answers to. Now, they lead the Truth in Journalism Project, an initiative to design and propose high standards of verification for today’s journalists. The Truth in Journalism Project’s Fact-Checking Guide offers new, inclusive ways to think about checking facts, affirming truth, and building trust in an age of disinformation.
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From the moment Trump took the oath of office, rumors about his first actions as America's 47th president spread like wildfire.
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The Kremlin uses false claims of Nazism in Ukraine to justify invasions, distort history, distract from Russia’s imperialism, and manipulate global perceptions
>Russia’s obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state serves to justify the ongoing invasion and to distract from Russia’s own historical baggage. This manipulative narrative, a cornerstone of Kremlin disinformation, relies on historical revisionism to falsely depict Ukraine as a haven for fascists. This grotesque distortion of history trivialises the horrors of Nazism and manipulates public perception both at home and abroad. > >The Kremlin has long played fast and loose with history to bolster its legitimacy, particularly regarding its World War II past. It insists that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, was merely a ‘necessity’ and should not be viewed as a complicity in fuelling Nazi war efforts and paving the way for the outbreak of World War II. By downplaying its role in enabling the Nazi regime, Russia deflects attention from its own murky historical actions, creating space to level baseless accusations against Ukraine.
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I quite like the idea of a standard format. It might help to communicate the intent of the community better since that was a problem recently.
Something like:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose? (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction. (e.g. the post that was removed, or got you banned)
- Provide a screenshot of the modlog entry (don’t deobfuscate mod names)
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be resolved
Maybe?
Hi fuckwit_mcbumble lol,
We are still configuring the threativore automod settings. Initially we will set it to autoreport any suspected violations for human review. Once we have confirmed it is working as expected then it will auto-remove the post or comment with a specific modlog reason to explain the policy.
I think our preference would be to stick to xcancel.com links if you need to link for factchecking. I hadn't given much consideration to archive links though, to be honest. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on those, and I'll review the comments again on that topic. We can always tweak the policy if need be.
“Western” is just a euphemism for white supremacy and “westerner” is just a euphemism for pale skin.
You're sailing very close to the shores of tankie-land with this campist statement.
I think they could be summarized as:
- Opposition to any form of censorship and/or concerns about "slippery slope" of banning Xitter links - i.e., what about Meta links?
- It's important to be able to post newsworthy tweets in order to hold them to account and have a record.
- Concerns about fact-checking - i.e., how can we check veracity of Twitter links if all we have is screenshots?
- Some folks wanted to ban all Xitter links, including screen shots and xcancel links, for a complete blackout.
We've tried our best to address those concerns in the policy above, which is a bit of a compromise position that tries to take as many of these concerns into account as we reasonably could. But of course some are mutually exclusive positions, so it's not going to satisfy 100% of users.
Thanks for the question. The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain.
We had a total of 7 "vouched" for users (you can see this by hovering over the icons). Once a user has been vouched for, then they can participate in all votes unless that privilege is subsequently withdrawn.
Instance policy update: Votes are in and Xitter links are now banned on this instance
Ahoy mateys!
We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.
Our new policy on Xitter links
- No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
- Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
- Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
- Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a https://xcancel.com/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.
We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.
Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.
N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com
Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!
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**The final tally is as follows: **
- For: !Salty Dog: An icon of two crossed cutlasses with a skull in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (2), !Vouched: a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color (7), !Deck Hand: An icon of anchor crossed with two staves in orange-red, black and white colors (5), !First Mate: a pirate ship's steering wheel, orangered color (3), !Powder Monkey: An icon of powder barrel in orange-red, black and white colors (2), !Threadiverse Enjoyer: An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (1)
- Against:
- Local Community: +2.6
- Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
- Total: +22.6
- Percentage: 100.00%
To break this down a little differently:
- Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
- External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
- Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).
That's not correct, see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35650327/16002405
However, still agree with the general sentiment.
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The tech billionaire was accused of making the Nazi salute at a rally for President Donald Trump.
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Your submission in "In which I post a graph showing some impact of disinformation on Lemmy, a propagandist disagrees, and someone else summons mods and gets the whole thing removed" was removed for "Anti-jacketing rule."
After some reflection, I've decided to remove this post.
The data from these charts could be explained in a number of different ways. Bots is only one possible explanation, so why jump straight to that conclusion? I haven't seen any compelling evidence from you or elsewhere that Lemmy has a serious bot problem. So at best your conclusions are speculation rather than evidence of any disinformation.
It's also problematic from an Anarchist perspective to "jacket" people in this way. Just because someone may be repeating what sounds to you like propaganda talking points does not mean they are shills or state sponsored agents. They might just have a different perspective or political affiliation to you. These accusations only serve to sow distrust and cause more conflict between users.
So, unless you have the receipts about these accounts being state-sponsored actors or actual bots, then you should consider dialing back the accusations and rhetoric on this stuff. Because otherwise you may be perceived to be jacketing others as shills or propagandists simply because they don't agree with your politics.
I'm also concerned about issues of consent with the way you are trawling though fediverse data. Did you seek anybody's permission to use their data in this way, and then to attack them with it? I'm aware it's "public" data but there are still ethical considerations here that you do not seem to have given any thought to.
An der Éierlechkeet hunn ech dës Sprooch reng fir de komesche Wäert gewielt. Ech sinn e falschen Hond wahrscheinlech. Ech sinn iwwerrascht datt Dir et wësst!
I think we figured it out in the end.
That seems to me like a wilful misinterpretation. And we have clarified what it means to you multiple times now, if you were somehow unable to get the gist of it from reading other posts in the community. I think there's plenty of context here now for people to make an assessment of whether db0 was power tripping in removing your post, so I'll leave it at that.
Ech schwätze kee Wuert vun dëser domm Sprooch, dat ass wéi.
There was no "unspoken rule" involved here. It's literally the first community rule in the sidebar. If you're just gonna make stuff up about being the victim of "unspoken rules" then this discussion might as well end here tbh. I'll note that nobody else has misunderstood that rule.
If you didn't feel willing or able to adequately express your position in the comments on the original post then that's a shame, but them's the breaks. Being a mod is a tough gig. You've now had the chance to have your say across multiple communities. And the offer is still open to pin your response blog entry to the original post.
Et huet eng anstänneg Bewäertung, also firwat net?
hues du iwwerluecht ënnert den Fersen vun dengen Ënnerdrécker eraus ze kommen?
Ok I'm sort of following along here.
- The initial messages here were complaints about me. Technically their feelings were hurt.
- I initially went away to talk about my perspective. I wasn’t dissatisfied about that. It was Blaze, who is like the fediverse peacekeeper at this point, who told me to share it here.
Ok got it, so you were the accused PTB in the original post here.
- Upon sharing it here, I was silenced even though it didn’t break any written rules. Which Blaze agreed with later on. I was told in the response to share it elsewhere. My feelings were not hurt, as shown by the fact I complied.
In what way were you silenced? Nobody banned you from here or stopped you participating in the original discussion according to the modlog. So no PTB there. In fact you were encouraged to simply post your response in the original discussion thread and db0 even offered to sticky it there so that it would get sufficient visibility.
But you wanted a completely separate post to complain that nobody took your side in the original discussion, and you didn't get your own way about it. But the best place for your response was in the original post, along with all the context.
- When I complied, the mod of [email protected] who told me to go elsewhere with it came to me and made a fuss. That’s where the rules were spoken about. It was that mod who told me he would rather I talk about it here. Again, my feelings were not hurt during that, as shown by the fact I complied about that too.
The so-called fuss, which was just responding to your questions & comments:
- Here we are.
Yes, here we are. So let me sum up.
- You were posted about in YPTB for banning people for supporting Luigi Mangione. The community rendered its judgment and most folks thought you were being a PTB.
- You then wrote a confusing blog post about how you were right to ban those people, and wanted to post it in a second YPTB post. This second post did not meet our community rules and was removed. Those rules have now been repeatedly explained to you and clarified. You were offered a "right of reply" in the original post with a stickied comment. It was suggested to you that if you want to make the post, do it somewhere else.
- You came back here to complain about db0 removing your (second) post, as db0 suggested you should do if you feel it was a PTB move. Unfortunately you then confused the hell out of everyone, me included, by writing about it in an incredibly confusing and disjointed way.
So the only topic of THIS post per point 3 should be about whether is was justified to have your second "right of reply" post removed according to our sidebar rules. Your assertion seems to be that db0 was power tripping by doing that.
I hope this clarifies for everyone. And I think the removal of your second post was completely warranted by the community rules because it was about you justifying yourself, more than anything else.
A guide to Sean Hannity’s role as Trump’s chief White House propagandist
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> If Your Time is short > > The House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol publicly released a final 845-page report and more than 100 transcripts of testimony, along with memos, depositions and documents. Much of the committee’s work remains available online. > > The group didn’t release videos of witness interviews that committee members said contained "law enforcement sensitive operational details" and information that could have endangered witnesses. The committee said its actions complied with House rules. > > House Republicans in March 2024 released a report accusing the committee of suppressing and deleting some pieces of evidence, but they have not gone as far as Trump in claiming that "all" evidence was destroyed.
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With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 granted clemency -- either a pardon or commuted sentence -- to all of the more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But at an Oval Office signing event and in a Fox News interview, Trump made several ...
> With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 granted clemency — either a pardon or commuted sentence — to all of the more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But at an Oval Office signing event and in a Fox News interview, Trump made several misleading or false claims while explaining the reason for his decision.
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After Trump sets January 6 rioters free, Fox News changes its tune on pardons for violent offenders
>During a stretch of Fox programming full of backtracking and excuses for Trump’s pardons, Laura Ingraham hosted two pardoned rioters to rewrite their stories
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Media lawyers Laura Handman and Rob Balin discuss the onslaught of attacks they expect the press to face in the coming months and years.
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The 50-page list of suggestions from House Budget Committee Republicans includes tax increases for single parents, students and homeowners.
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EU Member States have exposed Russia’s ongoing FIMI campaigns. Among those, is the tactic of impersonating reputable Western media, known as the Doppelganger campaign.
>The EEAS, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden continue to strengthen their responses to Russia’s information manipulation and interference attempts. Among them is a joint exposure of the perpetrators who aim to sow divisions and destabilise European societies and of their methods. For nearly a decade now, raising awareness about Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns has been at the core of the EUvsDisinfo mission. Today we are proud to republish a joint statement of these EU Member states exposing Russia’s continued foreign information manipulation and interference activities.
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Pro-Kremlin actors are deploying an arsenal of disinformation tactics to manipulate public opinion and tilt the scales of democracy.
>As Germany prepares to head to the polls, pro-Kremlin actors are deploying an arsenal of disinformation tactics to manipulate public opinion and tilt the scales of democracy. > >Ahead of the Bundestag elections on 23 February, elements of the pro-Kremlin information manipulation ecosystem have escalated their disinformation efforts, aiming to destabilise the democratic process in Germany and shape the outcome more to their liking. > >Information amplification networks tied to the pro-Kremlin foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) ecosystem have targeted Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Greens party, and the CDU/CSU with narratives blaming them for economic woes and portraying them as unreliable. > >Simultaneously, the German edition of Russia’s leading propaganda outlet, RT, has re-established its presence on X, despite being under international sanctions. > >These coordinated efforts are not isolated incidents but part of a broader pro-Kremlin strategy to interfere with Europe’s democratic processes – yet again.
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