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> baseless accusations of fake news Baseless really? I was shown the photo of a hospital bombed in Gaza. I was told there was 500 dead. I was told it was an ID
by cm2187 3y ago
> baseless accusations of fake news
Baseless really? I was shown the photo of a hospital bombed in Gaza. I was told there was 500 dead. I was told it was an IDF bomb. The NYT relayed Hamas propaganda without a second thought. How is it baseless?
Trust in journalism is at an all time low for good reasons. And I agree with you that deep fakes can't do much more damage. It is just the 2020's photoshop.
- defrost 3y ago> The NYT relayed Hamas propaganda without a second thought. How is it baseless? The root cause of that fubar in the heat of reporting is well documented - western media sources echoed each other when one first used an english mistranslation of an arabic tweet - an estimate of 500 injured was rapidly "reported" in english media as 500 confirmed dead. That's typical of the shitty social media driven infotainment bend that's come to be called "journalism" but really isn't. Sadly the first wave of "in first before ..." is what everybody remembers.
- kukkeliskuu 3y agoMy point was that there are roughly two camps, that have both lost their trust, but they have different reasoning behind it. I was not trying to argue about the truthfulness of any of the reasonings.