Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:
A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn’t “state” (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.
I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn’t say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn’t need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.
I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were “provided for defense from Iran, full stop.” which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I’m not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.
I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn’t bother making a post here for that because that’s just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it’s awful to see something like this happening in a community that’s supposed to keep people aware of the news.
But hey, maybe I’m wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it’s full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!
Probably the last thing that needs to be fixed with L.W news communities: Misinformation being modded.
The rule is abused (as seen in this post) and serves to promote echo chambers. If something is misinformation then downvote and say why. The person might learn something or, more importantly, others in the community who don’t know will learn.
And for those who cite that ‘law’ stating it takes more energy to correct than spew BS. Not a law, would be banned as misinformation ironically, and, regardless, is the price public forums of communication pay.
It’s a tough line to follow through, sometimes actually good places have errors, sometimes the bad places are reporting correctly.
I don’t know if I personally could 100% accurately tell when something is misinfo. Ideally, it’s not up to one mod, or even a team or admin group.
Exactly, the whole point of public forums is to have these discussions. Instead some have decided to go on a crusade against “misinformation” but what counts as misinformation? According to that mod, sending billions to a country committing genocide is not support for genocide because they claim it’s actually for “defense”??? It doesn’t make sense but I can’t expand on the discussion and gain understanding of their viewpoint because I was shut down immediately.
What if I consider that mod’s opinion misinformation, where’s my recourse? Will I need to enlist the help of a different mod who agrees with me? If the only criterion to be considered misinformation is whether a mod agrees or disagrees then they might as well shut down the comments section and simply tell us what we should be thinking since anything straying from that is going to be considered misinformation anyway.