Willy Wender Aceituno, a naturalised US citizen, files a lawsuit against DHS after a violent immigration stop, highlighting aggressive enforcement tactics.
Tangent: I would love to see a Lemmy feature that allows community mods to unilaterally block links to specific domains within their community. So, in this case, the poster would get an immediate notification that their post was not allowed due to the link being to a low quality source, and a suggestion to find the same story on a more reputable site.
Same! I feel like it’s a group effort sometimes to verify a source.
Sometimes, I see a post on social media, notice there’s not enough conversation, and so I bookmark it. A few hours later, it’s gone.
I have no idea if it was taken down because of fake news, taken down because the OP decided to remove it, or my tinfoil hat of The Gubberment overreaching.
Your comment is more work than merely removing the submission, but I, for one, highly appreciate it. I get to see the story and better sources. <3
Tangent: I would love to see a Lemmy feature that allows community mods to unilaterally block links to specific domains within their community. So, in this case, the poster would get an immediate notification that their post was not allowed due to the link being to a low quality source, and a suggestion to find the same story on a more reputable site.
Seems like a generalized automoderator tool might be handy that would allow a wide variety of actions :)
The irony that Newsweek is among the list seems to be lost on everyone. Fuck Newsweek.
agreed, but when verifying, a broad consensus among shitty sources works when you can’t find good sources.
we found the charlotte observer tho so like, why newsweek.
Same! I feel like it’s a group effort sometimes to verify a source.
Sometimes, I see a post on social media, notice there’s not enough conversation, and so I bookmark it. A few hours later, it’s gone.
I have no idea if it was taken down because of fake news, taken down because the OP decided to remove it, or my tinfoil hat of The Gubberment overreaching.