Interesting Global News
What is global news?
Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.
Post guidelines
Title format
Post title should mirror the news source title.
URL format
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. No social media posts
Avoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
- !legalnews@lemmy.zip - International and local legal news.
- !technology@lemmy.zip - Technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
- !interestingshare@lemmy.zip - Interesting articles, projects, and research that doesn't fit the definition of news.
- !europe@feddit.org - News and information from Europe.
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Why doesn't spamming authoritarian propaganda count? Better to have corporate ads than dictators' lies.
Just because you dont like their content doesn't mean it's spam. Just filter hexbear posts and grow some thicker skin
It's not normal content, it's propaganda. Whether that's technically spam or not, it's disinformation and intentionally corrosive content designed to spread division and hate.
It's not about me filtering out their propaganda and creating an echochamber. It's about resisting propaganda from dictators, and about playing a part in the Fediverse to help it survive and replace corporate social media.
People checking out Lemmy see Hexbear comments and go back to Reddit or wherever they came from. There are constant threads asking "how can I block a whole instance".
You know, you don't have to be here if you don't like the instance's policies. You're free to defederate yourself.
Having an opinion someone doesn't agree with doesn't make it invalid. I'm not an instance admin, so I have no say in who gets defederated, but in this community I welcome all opinions, no matter how popular or unpopular they might be.
People from democratic countries might call anything that doesn't agree with their world view a propaganda, yet on the flip side, countries from non-democratic countries might call anything that doesn't agree with their world view a propaganda. If we can't discuss our differences, then we are living in a bubble. If someone is never challenged, how can they refine their own position?
Rhetorical question to think about. Americans are likely to elect self-proclaimed authoritarian in the next election, should everyone defederate from instances that allow their opinions too?
In any case, this is not a place for this discussion. I would suggest making a post in !home@lemmy.zip.
I'm tolerant of different opinions, authoritarian propaganda isn't a different opinion, it's large scale coordinated misinformation. In this case coming from a government that has a long history of brutally killing people with "the wrong opinion".