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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

    The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.




  • In case anyone else has never heard of “MintPress News” - there’s a good reason for that.

    The Wikipedia page is a massive stream of examples where they’ve been caught fabricating stories for Putin, Assad, and Iran. They have a track record of making things up wholesale and recklessly endangering actual journalists. Take this example:

    If you are wondering how Mnar Adely, an intern with no professional journalism experience, launches a massively well-funded site, maybe here is your answer:

    No surprise when it comes to this being posted here, or that it is classified as “LOW Credibility,” and repeatedly listed as “Deprecated” on Wikipedia because “the site publishes false or fabricated information.”