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.
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.