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
  1. 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?
    • hellinkilla [they/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      the “article” looks to be some sort of live stream daily update. It says later “As of 5pm on Thursday 8 January, other sources began confirming the withdrawal of US embassy staff. In tandem, journalist Vanessa Beeley released the following news. It is currently unclear if the series of events are related or not:” [a bunch of stuff about Iran] Sometimes the news mega is like that. (To my eyes at least.)

      Looking it up I found similar stories from Sept 2024 and June 2025 but everything from Jan 2026 looks like Canary is the source. I didn’t thoroughly read the comments bu scrolling through couldn’t find any debunking; but meme-based analysis might have gone over my head.

      If someone posts a debunking of a news (or other statement of fact) it should become a pinned comment, and/or the thread is locked/deleted. Should be a note in the mod log as people who do it consistently might require sanctions.

      Once I made a post of a historical factoid I heard on a podcast then like a million people replied to say it was fake. A mod deleted it before I saw all that. (Which I agreed with.) So I guess they do that sometimes under current rules.