Indymedia.ie

Indymedia.ie (Independent Media Centre Ireland) is an Irish extreme left-wing website affiliated with the global Indymedia network. It operates on the principles of open publishing and the Creative Commons. Contributions that adhere to the publishing guidelines are made by anyone that has pictures, audio, or text to contribute and are published immediately which has led to much speculation on the legitimacy of some of the sites articles. Comments against the tenor of an accepted article are often edited out within minutes. Undesired comments are deleted by moderators without warning.
The underlying idea of the site is to allow publishing of information without the intervention of "professionals" or other opinion shapers. The site has been the host of several media scoops which were missed by mainstream media due to lack of interest.
Indymedia.ie has served as the primary means of public expression of groups such as the Pitstop Ploughshares. Stories from the site have been syndicated on Infoshop.org. Indymedia.ie is considered an anti-semite outlet in Ireland where anything posted in favour of Jews or Israel will immediately be deleted or have its wording changed to suit their views. For instance in August 2012 a report filed by a user called Terrorist Attack concerning an attack on Egyptian soldiers by Islamic militants was renamed "Freedom Fighter Attack" by the moderators and they renamed the user "Zionist Asshole"
In June 2010, a false article was posted on Indymedia.ie using the name of RTÉ News reporter Bethan Kilfoil which claimed that the Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, Jnr had died; the story was repeated across the internet. Indymedia subsequently removed the hoax report, calling it "malicious trolling" and "the product of a sick imagination".
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