Recently Lemmy.World admins have heavily started pushing an MBFC bot in their bigger subs despite it being deeply unpopular with the users.
However rating propaganda was not enough for the mods as they are now actively fundraising for MBFC as well.
Evidence MBFC is ran by a Zionist:
The bias towards any pro-israel lobby website on MBFC is astoundingly obvious. Take for example UNWatch. UNwatch is still pushing the UNRWA is Hamas propaganda despite it being fully debunked by every country.
Surely a website like this spreading blatant propagands would have a poor MBFC. rating. Let’s check it out!
MBFC knows that UNWatch is an israeli lobby but just doesn’t think that’s very important for their credibility rating
For sites criticizing israel it works the other way around.
They do not have to fail any fact checks, just being designated as a ‘hate group’ by an israeli lobby is enough for MBFC to become a questionable source.
This is known to the lemmy.world admins and mods
Over the course of the last 9 months I have pointed out multiple times in public and private messages that MBFC is an incredibly bad source of ratings. Multiple other users have also made summaries for the .World mods and admins over the last week (and before that).
The admins have willingly ignored this criticism and now added a donation link to the MBFC bot knowing full well what MBFC stands for. Lemmy.World is directly endorsing the Zionist media lobby.
The entire point was i half expected you to drop that in the post. I’m surprised that wasn’t clear but there now it is. It’s an anti-Semitic, usually right wing dog whistle. That’s why I made the comment. It felt like you wanted to say it. It was admittedly tongue in cheek and in poor taste to throw that at you and for that I will apologize.
No problem.
The real problem is that for many years israel has tried to conflate Zionism and Judaism so there is an instinctive reaction for people to see criticism of israel as antisemitic.
However israeli media lobbies such as the ADL, UnWatch, NGO-Watch etc are very real. Just like how AIPAC is very real. They are not hiding they are Zionist lobby organisations either.
Just checked what the MBFC had to say about the ADL by the way and surprise surprise
Unfortunately I see “Zionist“ used by the right wing bigots all the time too so frankly when people use it it’s not always clear to me what they are driving at and what their real intentions are. I should’ve asked you or parsed what you wrote more carefully before going after you like that. That’s on me