Your first article explicitly breaks the rules and the mods seem to have been sleeping because normally they remove opion posts.
Your second article doesn’t call it a genocide. It mentions a genocide case.
In both cases the MiddleEastEye editorial staff doesn’t call it a genocide. There’s NYT opinion articles calling it a genocide as well. An opinion piece is specifically not by the newspaper.
Here’s what it looks like when editorial staff calls it a genocide
It happens to call the genocide a genocide quite explicitly in one of the subheadings. So far, it’s up.
My understanding is that the mods of that community are a bit unreasonable (not to mention rude) with some perfectly reputable news sources based on the publishing platform used. Specifically I have seen the mods characterize Dropsite and Zeteo as “blogs” 😒🙄 because of using Substack as a publishing platform. This is annoying but from what I’ve read it has a …non-deplorable internal logic that I can tolerate, at least so far. But I wouldn’t go so far as to characterize the community as structurally and intentionally hostile, the way Twitter/X is.
X doesn’t necessarily have a better community. But the amount of censorship is a lot lower and there’s less arbitrary thought policing. (Though there have been reports of European users not being able to see pictures lately.)
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
MBFC says:
Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
I.e., not Low or Very Low in either of the metrics the Rule mentions. So, I don’t see how it breaks the rule.
Occasionally they don’t remove Dropsite or Zeteo either. Similar to how they didn’t remove your medium credibility source. I’m not sure whether it’s moderators caving to pushback or the hardliners being afk.
Your first article explicitly breaks the rules and the mods seem to have been sleeping because normally they remove opion posts.
Your second article doesn’t call it a genocide. It mentions a genocide case.
In both cases the MiddleEastEye editorial staff doesn’t call it a genocide. There’s NYT opinion articles calling it a genocide as well. An opinion piece is specifically not by the newspaper.
Here’s what it looks like when editorial staff calls it a genocide
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-ipc-israel-gaza-netanyahu-hamas-trump-ice
Today I posted this: https://lemmy.ca/post/50357968
It happens to call the genocide a genocide quite explicitly in one of the subheadings. So far, it’s up.
My understanding is that the mods of that community are a bit unreasonable (not to mention rude) with some perfectly reputable news sources based on the publishing platform used. Specifically I have seen the mods characterize Dropsite and Zeteo as “blogs” 😒🙄 because of using Substack as a publishing platform. This is annoying but from what I’ve read it has a …non-deplorable internal logic that I can tolerate, at least so far. But I wouldn’t go so far as to characterize the community as structurally and intentionally hostile, the way Twitter/X is.
Not an allowed source on there as it’s rated ‘medium’ by the Zionist rating site. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-canary-uk/
X doesn’t necessarily have a better community. But the amount of censorship is a lot lower and there’s less arbitrary thought policing. (Though there have been reports of European users not being able to see pictures lately.)
The rule says:
MBFC says:
I.e., not Low or Very Low in either of the metrics the Rule mentions. So, I don’t see how it breaks the rule.
I’ve seen anything under “high credibility” get booted.
Dropsitenews adheres to the rules too. They make them up as they go.
I guess we’ll see.
Dropsite, like Zeteo, is on Substack. Two comments up the thread I mentioned what I think about that.
Occasionally they don’t remove Dropsite or Zeteo either. Similar to how they didn’t remove your medium credibility source. I’m not sure whether it’s moderators caving to pushback or the hardliners being afk.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it has to do with what people report.