this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Those three agencies are the industry standard for determining bias and credibility. You just can't handle that 2/3 of them call your sources bullshit, and all three say the site you complain about being allowed does not have enough data.
All you had to do, literally, ALL you had to do was find better sources and the posts would have been allowed.
Instead, you decided to send angry PMs.
Look, here's how easy it is:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/07/05/netanyahu-says-some-lebanese-christian-villages-asked-to-be-annexed-by-israel_6755174_4.html
You DO know who Le Monde is, right? I found this in literally seconds.
Who decided they are industry standards? Why should i be forced to use your sources? Le monde has a ton of problematic content and controversies
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/le-monde-journalists-warn-of-threat-to-editorial-independence
Le Monde is one of three French "Newspapers of Record":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record
As for who put AllSides, MediaBias Fact Check and Ad Fontes in charge of determining real from fake news on the Internet? Well, the same people who put Snopes and FactCheck.org in charge of fact checking.
It's a collective decision made by most thinking people on the Internet including other news organizations and institutions of higher education.
Which makes sense that you would reject it.
So when someone like this says "Go here:"
https://library.skagit.edu/medialiteracy/journalism
You can pretty much take them at their word. And when 2 out of three bias sites call you out on your bullshit and the only reason the 3rd one doesn't is because of a paywall, you have two choices:
OR, your choice:
Snopes is owned by CIA people and Factcheck by MSM. You're extremely dogmatic and a petty tyrant, to boot.
Twist that tinfoil a little bit tighter.
Snopes is owned by CIA people and Factcheck by MSM. You're extremely dogmatic and a petty tyrant, to boot.
Amazing how you do anything through all that tinfoil.