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I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

  • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What are you expecting from “World Socialist Website”? Fact-based reporting? I don’t think so.

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      11 months ago

      For a site calling itself “socialist”, it sure is scared of unabashedly calling out an apartheid ethnostate.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      11 months ago

      I would like the articles referenced here in this community to be fact-based, and I would like our discussion to be based on reality. The situation is bad enough as it is without having to make things up

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        11 months ago

        While I see what you mean by that, is the title being “biased” equal to the article being biased? Seems like all doubts are resolved upon reading the first paragraph.

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          11 months ago

          Most people don’t read the articles, they read titles and they take the inference and go to the comments and fight. Titles that are misleading are effectively lies.

          In the propaganda war, titles are ammunition

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            11 months ago

            Okay, good point, like I said, I know what you mean about the title, but does a bad title necessarily mean the article is not factual?

            • jet@hackertalks.com
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              11 months ago

              Yes. Misleading title is a lie. Putting that lie into the title of our community makes this entire discussion premised on a lie. Most people are not going to read the article, and the hasbara / propaganda of the title still gets the eyeballs. So it is a net negative