The decisions in the New York and Washington newsrooms to maintain official secrecy is in keeping with longstanding American journalistic traditions — even at a moment of unprecedented mutual hostility between the American president and a legacy media that continues to dominate national security reporting.
Tl;dr: the only thing that’s surprising is that they kept this tradition even with Trump’s attacks on them. whatever your feelings on the topic this behavior is not our of the ordinary.
I saw one mod respond in a thread like this. They expressed that the post’s alignment/content was more important than sourcing.
Granted, that’s a sample size of one; I think most mods aren’t like that. Still, a sentiment bordering on ‘misinformation is fine as long as its the right kind’ is horrifying to me. It sums up everything wrong with the world’s information ecosystem.
Oof, I wouldn’t want that in any community, but a community specifically about disinformation is particularly disturbing. I reported this thread to the mods, if it’s not removed shortly I guess I’ll be reporting it to my instance admins for removal too.
This post is disinformation with an editorialized post title. Here is the actual source: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-washington-post-held-off-on-reporting-venezuela-raid
Tl;dr: the only thing that’s surprising is that they kept this tradition even with Trump’s attacks on them. whatever your feelings on the topic this behavior is not our of the ordinary.
Thanks for the link.
It’s not a tabloid source, at least. Still, I think this community specifically should have a higher sourcing standard.
I notice that a lot of mods on the fediverse sadly carry over the reddit tradition of doing the bare minimum amount of actual moderating.
I saw one mod respond in a thread like this. They expressed that the post’s alignment/content was more important than sourcing.
Granted, that’s a sample size of one; I think most mods aren’t like that. Still, a sentiment bordering on ‘misinformation is fine as long as its the right kind’ is horrifying to me. It sums up everything wrong with the world’s information ecosystem.
Oof, I wouldn’t want that in any community, but a community specifically about disinformation is particularly disturbing. I reported this thread to the mods, if it’s not removed shortly I guess I’ll be reporting it to my instance admins for removal too.
It wasn’t this community, it was somewhere in .world I think.
Well the ordinary in this country is total fucking bullshit so that tracks