I really don’t know what’s the point in posting news with just a short excerpt and no way to get to the source. It is confusing and goes against the ability to use brains to decide if something is actually true or just some kind of misinfo.
I propose:
Link sources: All news posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. This rule can be opted-out by individual comms.
above is based on /c/news rule #4
- Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
Problems:
- What constitutes “news” exactly?
I think that we all should be more critical about social media posts and the role they play in our understanding of the world. Social media itself is not for spreading sound information or informing the masses. Just like the TV news media before it was not nor the newspapers before that. We must think structurally, systemically, and really question the value of this stuff even if it reports news we want to hear.
For a community that prides ourselves on seeing past propaganda and libshit, we would do well to hold our own information sharing to higher standards