Edit: The original image has now been confirmed to be doctored. https://sh.itjust.works/post/59327741
An account on Feddit.org is pushing a screenshot of a conspiracy theory that shows db0 is run by Nazis. Zero evidence is supplied except a link that mysteriously doesn't work. Of course Feddit.org is eating this up as all the proof they needed.
When arguing against that and how suspicious it is that a user was browsing this site at all to happen to discover a month old post that conveniently portrayed a plan by Nazis to take over the instances who defederated feddit.org for Zionism.
Knowing how important following German law is for Feddit.org, I inquired as to if libel was against the law. I was informed that it was and calling people Nazis was libel (i.e. exactly what the post they are hosting is doing).
I was than banned for apparently calling someone a Nazi? (I never did, you can see that below) yet in the modlog the actual reason given was bad-faith, because I did not blindly accept a easily falsified screenshot.
The admin in question is Emopunker@feddit@feddit.org
This evidence continues a history of bad-faith and outright lying by the administration at Feddit.org.
I will investigate reporting this to the German authorities, it is unacceptable that Feddit.org will call people Nazis with the full support of the administration staff.
Are you saying that emopunker themselves made up the fake? I am asking to avoid misunderstandings.
And really asking in good faith: How would you as an admin handled this kind of post? Like for example a post where a hexbear.net admin gets called out as a neo nazi with the proof of a single screenshot, no working links or waybackmachine snaps. Remove? Lock? Pinned Modpost that hightlights the speculatory parts of the post?
Yeah that seems to be the case, even though I dont like the sex work negative connotation of the word. For anyone not in the know, its a shorthand for the german insult "Hurensohn" which could be translated to "son of a whore".
I was kinda hoping feddit.org and their admins would better at handling their status as zionists / zionist enablers...
I don't actually know if it was emopunker specifically, or another user, but it's very suspicious they were the only feddit.org admin to get pissy with us about the defederation over zionism (dms etc), and then they pop up in that post to defend their OP "friend" who they claim to "have known for ten years". In effect, they are arguing in support of the claim because it was made by a friend who they trust.
If it's literally fake news, but they want to keep it up for posterity, then it should be very clearly identified as such in the post by the feddit.org admins. Otherwise it should simply have been removed with a refutation in the modlog as soon as a check was done. It was a very obvious fake, after all. Instead, emopunker amplified the claim and even tried to bolster it by vouching for OP.
First take thoughts.... Comment that it will be looked into, that it shouldn't be presumed as accurate, and lock the post. Note that anyone with additional information should contact with receipts, including OP needing to provide them.
If OP has nothing but screenshots, I'd lean toward removal after a fashion.
So pinned modpost + lock, then remove if nothing further can be provided would be my personal take.