So, I made the same post of a Variety article covering how basically the entirety of US news agencies are refusing to comply with new Pentagon press standards, I posted this to multiple World/Global news comms on multiple instances…
… and my post to World News on lemmy.world, with ~200 upvotes in ~6 hours, 20 comments, was locked and removed with reason “Internal US News”, at midnight my local time…
https://lemmy.world/post/37359472
(removed)
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55525545
(local mirror of same post)
… apparently the lemmy.world World News editorial team doesn’t think it rises to the level of generally relevant to the entire world that basically all US media outlets (with the single exception of OAN, the most MAGA-culty news outlet) are unifying in a collective refusal to comply with the Trump Admin’s new military reporting standards.
No other World/Global News comm on any other instance that I made this same post to acted similarly.
lemmy.zip Global News:
https://lemmy.zip/post/50994380
beehaw.org World News:
https://beehaw.org/post/22673636
(my internet is shitting itself right now and I can’t load beehaw, will try to update later)
EDIT: internet’s back up, link updated
lemmy.ml World News:
https://lemmy.ml/post/37548697
… the meta-irony of this is physically painful to me.
Sure would be neat if the lemmy.world admins followed through on their recent pledge to reevaluate the staffing of their mod teams.
On Reddit, a more accurate name for /r/worldnews would be “Non-US News”. It iirc came about because /r/news was flooded with random US news no one outside the US cared about, so /r/worldnews was meant to be the place for news from or directly concerning other countries besides the US.
Considering the rule of no internal US news, I assume lemmy.world’s version of the community is an extension of the subreddit, culturally. They do allow some US news, but from what I can tell, it’s only ones which directly concern another country or the citizen of another country.
The issue here is it does appear to be something world news worthy as it’s an announcement all news agencies will stop getting to interact with Pentagon news briefings.
World totally doesn’t need to know anything about the largest military in the world