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Product menu > Content > Web Content: For every role other than Content Reviewer or Site Administrator, the web content list is filtered by default to show only approved contents.

https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/modules/apps/journal/journal-web/src/main/java/com/liferay/journal/web/internal/display/context/JournalDisplayContext.java#L574

Thus, the list doesn't display folders first and contents later when ordering by Modified date and, obviously, doesn't show the expired and draft contents.

Moreover, if you clear the filter, the configuration is not saved and you have to clear the filter again and again.

That's why this preference should't be applied by default, or at least it should be configurable.