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Flagged articles used to be a sign of something being misleading, badly written, or just something generally off to take caution with.

The last two years it has become more of a signal that "this is something right wing USA would want to supress".

I think the flagging mechanism needs a rethink now it is being abused in this way.

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The moderators genuinely seem to think that everything is going perfectly according to plan and if you ever try to suggest that there’s a group of users who flag things in a coordinated fashion purely because they personally don’t align with their politics you will be told that you’re a conspiracy theorist and that you should just trust them that they are doing a great job but also at the same time no you’re not allowed to see any of the rational behind their moderation decisions, there’s no log, you just have to take them at their word even if we can all see clear as day that there is no link between the rules as they are written and the rules as they are enforced.

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