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Actually, you can see on https://social.bbc/public that the BBC re-host a lot of content that's not exactly vetted by the BBC.

Like 31 Jul 2023 at 18:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.sciences.re

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Rémy Grünblatt 🍃

@mastodonmigration @BBCRD @BBC5Live @BBCRadio4 @BBC_News_Labs @BBCTaster @Connected_Studio

See also this small message I just published that ends up on the BBC federated timeline : https://mastodon.social/@remyg/110810080227122043

Screenshot of Mastodon displaying a message I sent mentioning BBC accounts stating that "the earth is a donut", underlying that a "private" instance does not have the control over what appears on its timeline.

31 Jul 2023 at 18:21 | Open on social.sciences.re

GunChleoc

@RGrunblatt Looks like one way for them to prevent that would be to switch on limited federation mode, which is quite the hammer and would block automatic federation with other servers https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#limited_federation_mode

This doesn't sound practical for a news organization.

Another option would be to uncheck "Allow unauthenticated access to public timelines" in /admin/settings/discovery but that would kill the local timeline too.

@mastodonmigration @BBCRD

31 Jul 2023 at 20:25 | Open on mastodon.scot

Mastodon Migration

@RGrunblatt @BBCRD @BBC5Live @BBCRadio4 @BBC_News_Labs @BBCTaster @Connected_Studio Good observation. Seems like the Federated feed picks up content that is somehow federated to their server.

31 Jul 2023 at 20:30 | Open on mastodon.online