See title. Axel Springer bought Politico, and it has ties to the CIA, having received $7 million from them, as well tries to force Politico employees into supporting the genocidal apartheid state (Israel).
They also lack journalistic integrity in that they doxed freedom activists, such as those from Palestina.
There’s more in here.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55154354
Get a DNS blocklist for all Axel Springer related media, so you don’t need to bother.
Can we just use up and downvotes and not use bans for such things.
Without wishing to weigh in on this specific case right now, I think we have to recognise that votes don’t work for all instances of this because way too many people do not read the article. An outlet can publish an incendiary headline and then people that agree with it upvote it without ever noticing that the article doesn’t actually back it up
In this particular case the problem is that most Germans know what it means for a news outlet belonging to Axel Springer, while internationals can’t understand our anger. This is because politico by itself is not a far right outlet like it’s brother BILD. That’s why the up/downvote thing will not work here sadly.
Welt has decent articles from time to time. It’s also a good idea to expose yourself to viewpoints you don’t like.
I do that is why I also read conservative news papers like FAZ, their articles are hard to bear sometimes. Axel Springer however is straight up evil. That’s like saying you should read FOX news from time time.
That does not work on lemmy.
Why?
Lemmy scores like this:
Rank = ScaleFactor * log(Max(1, 3 + Score)) / (Time + 2)^GravityWith:
Score = Upvotes - Downvotes + 3And Time is the time since either the posting for “Active” or the last comment for “Hot”. The issue being that the Time score drops of very quickly. As a result it matters much more, what the Time is rather then the votes, as long as it is not horribly bad. Also posts with a lot of downvotes are not treated as bad, as long as they have a lot of upvotes as well.
I think so too, or even linking to other sources for the same news
The way in which I interact with lemmy doesn’t allow for downvoting. Nor would I want it to, to be honest.