• @Arcka@midwest.social
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    267 days ago

    This is an absolutely braindead lazy take.

    The same professional journalists who’ve worked at these big media corporations have used the substack platform to open up sites in droves so they can focus on more niche topics, or just escape the censorship of owners and advertisers.

    If you think that legitimate news can only come from a company owned by billionaires, then you’re wrong.

    • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      -307 days ago

      Once they start writing for a reputable source again, we’ll be happy to link to them. We aren’t linking to blog sites.

      Again, because we aren’t going to be drawn into the debate of “Why did you allow THAT Blogger site but not MY bullshit blogspam site?”

      We aren’t going to manually vet 10,000 blog sites, twitter accounts, facebook pages, reddit posts, Instagrams, etc. etc.

      The only FAIR way to do it is what we’re doing now: “No, not a valid source. Find a legitimate source.”