Fifi Lamoura@gnutelephony Yeah, there was definitely a bit of a grifter thing going on with GNN, though I think it was more a "charismatic leader" and wanna be rock star/guru type issue from them (though they were getting funding from the US government). I had NOT heard about the independent journalists being targeted, do you have more info on that?
As for Jeff at Newsie, I think it's just greed and being a Florida based businessman that's probably the issue. He seems in it for the money and clout and not particularly ethical or to care about journalistic ethics. Also, ti's completel opaque who his "team" is that moderates and apparently runs the business for him (his main interest seems to be farming business back to Honeytree). I personally don't even have an issue with someone providing a server service, it's just mixing up journalism with this and him/his team not even caring or thinking there was anything problematic about hosting NewsMax that makes me worry for journalism on the fedi and capture by purely corporate interests (and it's become VERY clear to me that a lot of journalists and news orgs are VERY naive when it comes to the internet and just generally incurious). @boud @ZekuZelalem @opencollective
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