this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Such a glorious Modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21821311
The first "news" source that was posted and removed:
alarabiya.net
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-arabiya/
"Overall, we rate Al Arabiya as Questionable due to excessive government censorship that results in the publication of pro-state propaganda. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the omission of key facts in stories. (8/16/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 10/06/2023)"
The second questionable site posted and removed:
thenationalnews.com
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-uae/
"Overall, we rate The National Questionable based on poor sourcing, promotion of state propaganda, lack of transparency, and censorship. (8/29/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 06/06/2025)"
And finally the PM he sent me that caught him the permaban in World:
"fuck you and your whole family you piece of trash"
@mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com - You are the poster child for the exact kind of user we do not tolerate.
As for Irannewswire - There's no consensus as to their credibility, UNLIKE the sources listed above which are clearly questionable.
I'm not removing a site that does not appear to have that consensus.
https://ground.news/interest/iran-news-wire
"The Ground News media bias check for Iran News Wire is unknown. Scores are assigned by aggregating bias scores from Ad Fontes Media, Media Bias/Fact Check, and AllSides.
Is Iran News Wire credible or reliable? Our Factuality score answers both of those questions. When it comes to Iran News Wire, we’ve assigned a Unknown factuality rating. Ratings are assigned by aggregating scores from Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check."
At least I am not a racist complaining about blm
It's not racist to point out BLM doesn't actually care about black lives. Only when black lives are taken by white police officers.
9 year old killed by stray gunfire? BLM is fucking silent and it's a travesty every time it happens.
https://www.wisn.com/article/9-year-old-shot-in-milwaukee-dies-no-suspect-in-custody/71868263
Where's the "Say her name!" crowd for Jade Riser? Oh, right, you don't know her name because BLM doesn't care.
This is the problem when people push an agenda over community... Sound familiar? 😉
Omg dude, you are disgusting… jeez
Sorry I believe standing up for black lives means standing up for ALL black lives, not just the agenda driven black lives.
Why put the effort to explain? Read the room, nobody likes you and your excuses are pathetic. The only questionable thing here is your zionist fascist ass.
PTB is a stacked audience of bad actors, your opinions are of no actual consequence and are are best dismissed with a subtle jerking off motion.
But for anyone ELSE stumbling into the discussion, they need to see my side of things and not the nonsense coming from bad actors who got moderated.
If this is such a “stacked audience of bad actors” what the fuck are you doing here? Do you have an humiliation kink?
Fuckin “my side of things”… your side is that you are cunt who doesn’t know how to moderate or what a source is.
Take your shitty sources and opinions, shove them up your ass and get the fuck out of here.
I am here because I'm not going to allow fraudulent allegations go unchallenged. This isn't about changing the hearts and minds pf PTB, that can't be done.
It's about anyone else who stumbles into the conversation.
https://youtu.be/xuaHRN7UhRo#t=1m5s
Woah woah woah 🙌 did you just say FRAUDULENT ALLEGATIONS??? Damn that’s some serious shit. Thank god we have a cowboy here. Should I call the cops?
So much for a "real life." Go live it.
Daily!
Clearly not, you have such little self awareness, if you go outside, you're likely to get hit by a car immediately
Goddamnit, I have to take your side on this one.
edit: This could have been a win for you if you just stopped here. You make it really hard to say you're right about something.
He's never been right. Why would he now?
They have never been able to do that, which is one reason they continue to prove they should not be a mod of anything.
My favorite is still them saying amp links were banned, not because they are terrible for the internet but because the stupid mbfc bot couldn't handle them.
Since when your shitty fact check has authority on what is a questionable source and which is not? Maybe you should use your own judgment or maybe you don't do it because you are bad at it. Why should a source like Irannewswire be trusted and not questionable when they are defending the MEK terrorists who fought along Saddam in the iraq/iran war?
irannewswire.org/irans-resistance-units/
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48433
When Iran News Wire actually has data showing they are untrustworthy I will have no problem removing them too.
Right now, the aggregate from across the three arbiters of truth when it comes to bias and credibility, AdFontes, MediaBias Fact Check, and AllSides is that they are a cipher.
That is not a removable offense.
The fucking BBC is untrustworthy based on everything we've seen them publish about pissrahell and the war on Iran yet it is considered credible? Get a grip
Using words like "pissrahell" exposes your own inherent bias.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6588617-if-you-run-into-an-asshole-in-the-morning-you
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
Raylan Givens Justified"
fuck the state of Israel, and anyone who attempts to normalise its atrocities, and suppress the gruesome reality of the situation in favor of state-backed narratives and polite fictions. that is the predictable end result of your policies, especially when pissrael has gone to great lengths to kill every last credentialed palestinian journalist it can get its hands on. its pretty difficult for murdered journalists to publish enough articles to compete with the combined state media apparatus of israel and the us billionaire class, but what can you do? your hands are tied, I guess. standards, right?
and anyway, this notion that establishment papers are still bastions of journalistic integrity is wishful thinking at best. how can we trust what comes out of the bought-and-paid-for subservient mouthpieces of the billionaires class? that whole model is fundamentally broken, in the same way the 2-party system is broken. its a rigged game, built to support those in power, not to challenge them. good journalism speaks truth to power. how much of that are we seeing from the mainstream rags?
They are still better sources than random blogs, twitter links, and youtube channels with no provenance or editorial standards.
Israeli atrocities ARE being reported, and have been for decades. You know what? The vast majority of the public simply is not aware, or if they are aware, they do not care.
I thought the Rachel Corrie killing back in 2003 was going to move the needle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
Blonde, American, young woman... Israel bulldozed her to death while she was engaging in peaceful protest.
The public? Silence.
Bias to the truth. Israel is a pissy and shitty state
True, but saying the BBC is untrustworthy because they won't call Israel "Pissrahell" is a bad faith argument.
We get it, they have actively been engaging in war crimes for my entire lifetime, but the BBC is not ignoring or condoning what they are doing:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1eyyyl8ye0o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlwwwyy70do
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn75ex1dv61o
Bbc is untrustworthy because it got exposed for policing pro palestine voices
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza
Rhe other didn't say bbc should have called israel pissrael and got mad because it didn't
From that link:
"“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said."
Someone doesn't understand how journalism works.
When Israel, or anyone else really, says something insane, or objectionable, it is NOT the position of the journalist to robustly challenge it.
The position of the journalist is to report what was said, the ramifications for saying it, and any sort of counter argument.
(Source: I married a journalist...)
Good journalism is not supposed to take sides, which is inherently problematic in OTHER ways, making minority counter arguments appear to be on equal footing when they are not.
So, for example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ymz1n9rmo
https://web.archive.org/web/20260620041239/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ymz1n9rmo
Pretty solid reporting.
Good journalism is supposed to report facts not doing both sadism. I don't want in an article about Ukraine for the media to spread russian lies. A reputable media should never force it's journalists to police their tone to look politcally correct.
Tell me you don't know how journalism works without telling me you don't know how journalism works.
The sites that refuse to police tone are some of the worst offenders, who also get removed BTW. Your Fox News, New York Post, ONN, Breitbart, etc. etc.
The difference is, most people inherently know not to post that shit.
Said the man who keeps up propaganda that agrees with him and said he actually hates black people defending themselves.
Nope, I hate idiotic performance protestors, largely white, doing "look at us!!! We're helping!" protests that do nothing. LOL. Come out to Portland, I'll introduce you around.
It is you who don't know what journalism is. You prove again and again that you can't think by yourself and just follow blindly random factcheckers
Walter Lippmann the father of modern journalism said The function of news is to signal an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and to make a picture of reality on which men can act. Nothing about balance and both siding
Journalism professor Jonathan Foster said : "If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the window and find out which is true."
Fox news do police tone. They will never allow anybody saying the word genocide or put democrats in a positive light.
You are talking to a wall, one that time & again has had the backing of .world’s admns. It’s literally a waste of time to argue with him. People have tried for years, and it’s never had the slightest effect. This is who you’re dealing with
so obviously not my argument... 🙄 wonder why no one is talking to you in good faith? Its shit like this...
A media that never criticized israel and the usa involvement in the war. Couldn't even write a full article condemning the bombing of the school during the war and also include the MEK a terrorist group as a resistance group is trustworthy? A media denying genocide like timeofisrael is trustworthy ?
Your biases are very clear. There is no such a think as arbiters of truth either.
Gonna take your side in this one