A reminder to all DUers reposting content from social media: Check your sources
Given the situation in the Middle East, it's understandable that people want to bring the most up-to-date information they can find to DU. In principle, I'm absolutely not opposed to that. In practice, however, it means that some of the content now being brought to DU is being reposted from sources which are not appropriate for our community.
I am talking about social media sources which traffic in right-wing content, racist content, homophobic content, antisemitic content, and conspiracy content, including anti-vax conspiracy theories. Or, more often than not, all of the above.
I will note that DU's "Don't peddle right-wing talking points, smears, or sources" rule does carve out an exception for such sources:
Note that if you want to use a source which would typically be considered inappropriate for DU, you need to to give a clear reason for why you're doing it. If the purpose is to point out that MAGA media is turning against Trump, or if you want to highlight the awfulness of a particular X post by some right-wing public figure, then you need to give a clear explanation that that is your intent.
But simply reposting content from neo-Nazi or other extremist social media accounts, just because they've criticized Trump or other Republicans, or because they've posted an update about the war with Iran, does NOT count under the rule exception.
As you know, DU relies on the community to police itself via the Jury system. Of course, not all members serving on Juries are aware of whether certain X accounts are inappropriate, and people are often not likely to bother to check. This can make it easy for inappropriate sources to slip through. If Jury members see a post bashing Trump or Republicans, they are probably likely to think it's okay, and will be unlikely to click through to the X account only to find that it is selling white supremacist T-shirts.
So:
1) To DU members who are reposting content from social media: Please check your sources before posting to make sure that the source is appropriate for DU.
2) To DU members who are serving on Juries for the "Don't peddle right-wing talking points, smears, or sources" rule: Please don't just assume that a social media source is okay if it is bashing Trump -- actually check the source to make sure that it is appropriate for DU. If you do not wish to click through to a social media site to check the source, it is perfectly okay to cancel out of the Jury and let someone else take a look.
Thanks for reading, and for being part of the effort to keep DU clear of bigoted sources and content.
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Also, stop recommending /highlighting X content. That would be a good start (imo, of course). 
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The poster has a completely legitimate point.
However - for the purposes of this this thread it shall be noted that DU has specific rules against right wing sources and agenda - while the same is not true for simple misinformation and trash posting. And, in any case - it's kind of up to the community to some extent to ride herd ...
...one could deduce that it is neither rampant nor serious enough to worry about.
or in any that I responded with thereafter.
And, no - it is neither my job, nor incumbent upon me, to 'corroborate' or 'document' my opinion. If you feel like doing that grunt work ... Have at it!
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Nut-&-Yahoo is threatening anyone posting damage to Israel with 5-year sentences. You know, factual on-the-ground info.
Always best to double check sources before posting, good advice and a good reminder .. 
We needed that!
However it's the responsibility of the DU posters, not the DU readers, to make the determination.
I completely agree with this definition, and I will never click on a right-wing source if I can avoid it.
The only exception for me is that I will occasionally post a "screenshot" of another person's post that includes a live-linked tweet from Xwitter, if I believe it is of interest to other DUers. By creating a screenshot, I give one click to Xwitter, but once the screenshot is made I can post it on DU for others to see, and thus deny the extra clicks to Xwitter. This is far better than leaving the live tweet for everyone to click on. I hope other DUers will follow this and provide images as screenshots rather than as live-linked tweets.
I do understand your point, and I try to identify the source within my post. If it should ever be alerted, the jury needs to see this and hopefully they will have a better understanding. (The link you provide in your post isn't normally provided to the jury.)
I've been on a lot of juries lately, and it seems more often the replies are alerted rather than the original post.
