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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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.