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- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
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Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
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I was told to add my voice here, so here's my take on Rule 3:
Please keep the MFBC rule. Without that, this sub would be just a repackaged WorldNews@lemmy[dot]ml which is a cesspool where terrible sources and propaganda run crazy. I've admin-blocked that community on my instance months ago because of the poor sourcing.
You can't "both sides" the truth, and sources that habitually lie, distort the truth, or inject heavy bias should not be given a platform. There are plenty of left-, center, and right-biased sources that are credible, so all angles are possible while maintaining standards for the credibility of submissions. If a particular story is only covered by news outlets that are deemed non credible, there's probably a reason for that.
Even allowing case-by-case submissions from non-credible sources (e.g. they just repackage an AP article) is dangerous as it gives the otherwise non-credible source undeserved legitimacy and only serves to muddy the waters for the other stuff they put out. It also sets a precedent: "Well, you allowed this story from Jim Bob's Reel Truth News so why not this one?"
Edit: This may be the wrong post? I can't find the post Little Cow linked to me, but they said it was pinned (lemmy.world/post/10102462).
We're working with the admins to come up with a bot to automate it.
Agreed, garbage sources are garbage sources.
When I was still developing Tesseract UI (RIP), I incorporated MBFC lookups directly in the client and put credibility badges on posts. I didn't see that MFBC had a public or private API, but they do export a MIT licensed subset of their data in JSON format in their official browser extension. I was able to bundle that dataset into Tesseract to perform lookups locally.
If the admins want any help with the bot tool and working with the MBFC data, I'm happy to assist.
This.