Independent News
Welcome to the community for independent journalism, a place to post and engage with diverse, free news media from around the world.
The rundown:
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Posts should link to a current* article from a credible, independent news source. If there's a paywall, please put the official link in the URL box and add an archive link in the text body of your post. Blogs, editorials, listicles and reports are welcome.
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Post title should be the article headline or best fit. Add this tag if an account is needed for access: [sign-in required.]
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No misinformation. Provide sources when making substantial or potentially destructive claims.
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Be civil. Be respectful. Be cool. Instance rules apply.
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Tag NSFW and apply content warnings at your discretion.
*Independent journalism is generally free from government and corporate interests and is not controlled by a major media conglomerate. "Independence" is a gradient, so use your best judgement when posting.
*Current depends on whether new, publicly available information has been released since the article has last been updated. When in doubt please add the published date to the title in a tag [like this.]
For a less serious news community, check out: !wildfeed@sh.itjust.works
Canadian-based independent news: !indy_news_canada@sh.itjust.works
All communities were created with the goal of increasing media literacy and media pluralism.
Some of the independent news sources posted here:
Australia
https://independentaustralia.net/
Canada
Germany
India
Philippines
Russia
https://meduza.io/en (based in Latvia)
South Africa
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/
https://groundup.org.za/about/
U.S.A.
https://theconversation.com/us
Global
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You work for an intelligence agency and can confirm that? I assume my isp logs everything I do. Because if someone asks them to, they likely will.
And what if the ISP keeps the log that you visited some news website sometime in December? What are you afraid of?
If your opsec is so strict that you cannot visit a news website, then I think you are seriously breaking your own opsec by posting here.
I wouldn't call what I do opsec. I am aware of my digital footprint. I work with computers, and am aware of some techniques for identifying desirable information in unstructured computer data. I do not know what every link on this platform may do wrt to those techniques, and therefore abstain for the most part from clicking things I dont recognize. Forgive me for simply being hegenic. The same thing on cnn is much less problematic.
Edit: I think I may have decided this isnt the community I should be spending tons of time in.
Honest question, because I try to be mindful of what I post, why is CNN better?
I don't link to CNN, CBC, BBC, etc. to expand the media diet on Lemmy. I made this com and it's trashy sister, !wildfeed@sh.itjust.works, in the interest of media pluralism, which means avoiding most news conglomerates. Still, I don't post from any source I haven't vetted by looking into their legitimacy, independence and fact-checking history. I'm not sure how to check for what makes you hesitant to click.
So I'm wondering how I can do that. If not, how could I better convey that these are legitimate sites? As far as I know the Lemmy TOS and most journalism copyrights prevent me from copy-pasting entire articles, so that isn't an option.
I think its just a personal hang up. I'd have to personally know that the sites weren't problematic. I think I just need to keep my thoughts to myself here.
If you wanted to do something, not that you should on my account, you could compile a list of sites you have vetted paired with what made you feel the source wasnt problematic.
That last part is a good idea. I've been meaning fo make a pinned post with a list of my most-trusted sources for a while.
Thanks for the extra kick to get that going.