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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So BBC, while on the cusp of censorship for "defamation of Trump", still sees it necessary to watch his arse?

These bootlickers man

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They all have the same owners. Mainstream media is a compromised asset. Don't go there for "news" they are all no better than fox these days.

[–] brxghtjen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Censorship works.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well, kidnapping implies he will be used for ransom and returned. He was abducted.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

BBC bans journalists from telling the truth?

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It's so unprecedented!

/s

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Change "BBC" to "Global Media" and you are closer to the truth.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

BBC is propaganda for the Empire.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (5 children)

BBC is appeasing Trump. The UK is a lost cause. An Irrelevant ex-empire. Just like the US is going to be, once it finally implodes.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can it please implode faster?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One part of me hopes so but if/when it does, I doubt something better will emerge - which is terrifying.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I want it to implode enough that the federal government can't keep hurting its citizens, but not so much that the citizens are worse off than when they were being repressed.

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[–] Suriel@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps "unfreed" could be used instead?

[–] cutemarshmallow@europe.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Suriel@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Wouldn't it be "unhomed"? ;)

[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 170 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Newspeak: "In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to reduce a person's ability to think critically."

See also: "the officer's gun discharged" instead of "police shot the man"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I remember thinking this aspect of the book was far fetched, but holy shit was he spot on. Language really does inform how we think, and controlling that can be very powerful

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I always thought Winston's job, of literally rewriting history, would be an impossible task.

Nowadays? I'm not so sure. When we look at where most of the news comes from in America and follow the money up, you've got like 90% of it coming from about a couple dozen people.

Some of those people control LLMs along the way. They control our social media and search engine and what posts and answers and advertisers we see. They control the servers through which most of the internet routes their traffic. They control the certificate authorities that all of our web browsers intrinsically trust. And most of them are friends with each other...or at least keep it cordial.

And they're patient. They play a long game. Half of them aren't even middle-aged and are in peak physical health.

Shit even that sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory like 15 years ago, and while I'm being hyperbolic...I'm really not being that hyperbolic.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago

Oh boy… are you opening the door to concept philosophy? Because that’s a fucking mind bender. First big assumption you need to let go of in this domain: mankind is not on some path of iterative progress where we find ourselves at the most knowledgeable and capable in the present. Rather, we’ve conveniently redefined what progress is in the first place.

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[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maduro was ~~kidnapped~~ expropriated

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm more a fan of "reverse ICEd"

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

BBC Has Fallen is Gerard Butlers next movie

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago

They also murdered about 80 people when they kidnapped and trafficked them.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 days ago

Abducted, then

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The BBC is no longer reputable

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It stopped being reputable after the Iraq invasion in 2003. The Blair government stuffed it with loyalist apparatchiks to make sure the government line was never seriously questioned. This has been the case ever since.

September Dossier - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier

The 45 minute claim lay at the centre of a dispute between Downing Street and the BBC. On 29 May 2003, BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan filed a report for BBC Radio 4's Today programme in which he stated that an unnamed source – a senior British official – had told him that the September Dossier had been "sexed up", and that the intelligence agencies were concerned about some "dubious" information contained within it – specifically the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to use them.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not a "war", it's a "special operation". Anyone who says it's a war is committing treason.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Since only Congress has the power to declare war, people who care about accurate language (especially journalists!) use other terms to describe troop deployments outside officially declared wars.

The US military has had names for nearly all of their operations since the mid-1960s, and these traditionally have been used by the press. Operation Power Pack in 1965 (invasion of the Dominican Republic) was the first one I found in my cursory search.

Major ones I remember from my life include Operation Desert Shield/Storm/Strike (1990s), Operation Enduring Freedom ("war on terror" in Afghanistan after 9/11), and Operation Iraqi Freedom ("war on terror" expands inexplicably to Iraq).

This type of framing is not new, and it's not a conspiracy. It's a bunch of language nerds making sure that they use accurate terminology.

[–] Deckname@olio.cafe 43 points 2 days ago

This was literally the header of the New York times on Sunday...

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

so much for that alleged freedom of the press

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

I'll allow it, as long as they call it a war crime.

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

~~Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn't used in journalism. Makes sense.~~ Edit: nah I'm wrong. They'd use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. "Misinformation", "inaccuracies" "incorrectly said..." Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

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[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Question : I break into someones home and take them to my home (from their bed) and lock them up. What's that called?

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

It depends. What’s your net worth?

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 48 points 2 days ago

"Abducted" it is then.

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