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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds (www.thecanary.co)
submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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The Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. Despite banking with them for almost a decade they are currently withholding a substantial amount of our money. We are left with barely any funds.

We do know that multiple other politically engaged people have suffered similar actions by other banks in recent times. It is not lost on us that powerful banks are able to restrict the financial activity of anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine organisations and individuals. Whilst we do not currently know the reasons behind our debanking, we cannot afford to be naive about this.

It is an outrage that the Canary has been unceremoniously dropped into financial instability with no notice or explanation from Lloyds.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Strong left bias, but "mostly factual" rating from mbfc

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago

MBFC is almost entirely created by one person (6 named on site, but 1 is by far the controlling authority).

Nobody is without bias, but a large organisation of many varying views can temper it to a tolerable amount. To say that a near one man operation can act without bias though is ridiculous.

To rely on MBFC to determine the credibility of a news source is like outsourcing your critical thinking to somebody else. They're a hack organisation as much as the organisations they claim to call out.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 23 hours ago

Mbfc also calls hasbara rags like Times of Israel "left leaning and mostly factual".

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess that's middle of the lane for most people then.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, it has been quite dishonest at times

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to the 'strong left bias' and MBFC's own right slant.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The Canary very much has a strong left bias

There's nothing wrong with having a left wing bias or being left wing, it's a bit silly to try and act as if having opinions is a bad thing

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

I'm not familiar with them. I'm not making any comment about the Canary, only MBFC.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

mostly factual

quite dishonest at times

Yeah. You know the difference between 'mostly' and 'always' does allow for some 'at times' exceptions, eight?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -5 points 1 day ago

The Canary, while it doesn't outright lie, creates strange theories and interpretations surrounding things. It's definitely left biased.