Welcome! This community is constantly upgrading and is a current work in progress. Please stay tuned.

/c/Worldnews@sh.itjust.works strives for high-quality standards on the latest world events.

The basis of these standards comes from the MBFC, which uses an aggregate of methodologies, including the IFCN and World Freedom Indices, to rate the Bias and Factual Reporting of News.

These are non-profit organisations with full transparency of their funding and structure. Likewise, this community is also transparent – Please feel free to question its staff and the overall content of this community.

Does your post fit the standards? Check this thread!

Rules:

Disallowed submissions

• US internal news/US politics (Allowed while the Fediverse grows)

• Editorialised titles

• Editorials, opinions, analysis

• Feature stories

• Non-English articles

• Images, videos or audio clips – General Social media posts (Only Allowed during ongoing world events)

• Petitions, advocacy, surveys

• All-caps words in titles

• Blogs

• Old news (≥ 1-Month-old) articles

• Memes/GIFs

• Unlabeled NSFW images/videos

• URL shorteners

• Paywalls (Copy-Pasting the Article content or bypassing the paywall is allowed)

Commenters will receive one public warning with only one strike if violating any of the following rules:

• Celebrating death/Advocating violence

• Genocide denial/downplaying genocide

• Disinformation/misinformation

• Health disinformation/misinformation

• Bigotry / Other offensive content Personal attacks on other users

• The general rules of the sh.itjust.works instance apply!

Thank you.

todo list:

• Automate a bot to check standards

• Introduce tl;dr bot

• Gain more moderators