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I don't know what you're reading, but on HN, almost nothing Israel says is taken at face value, everything Israel says is scrutinized and cast doubt upon. I don
by 7402 1y ago
I don't know what you're reading, but on HN, almost nothing Israel says is taken at face value, everything Israel says is scrutinized and cast doubt upon. I don't see a lot of questioning of statements derived from Palestinians, Hamas, or Al Jazeera.
- jjani 1y agoAlmost no post on HN related to Israel remains unflagged.
- 7402 1y agoWell this one isn't. People flag articles because they disagree with them, but also because they just think the discussion may descend into uninformative yelling. My point concerned the discussions that do appear, rather than which articles make it through unflagged, but even there it appears they don't support the narrative of "only good things about Israel appear in the media." There's a relevant discussion in this recent post from a couple weeks ago: Ask HN: Are we allowed to discuss Israel on HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44947788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44947788 "We want to give the topic of Israel and Gaza fair exposure, as it's obviously an important story and it would feel wrong to pretend it's not happening. At the same time, every time we have one of these stories on the front page, it turns in to a hellish flamewar, we have to spend all day moderating it..."
- jjani 1y agoCorrect, this one is a very rare exception. There's indeed multiple reasons that it happens. But it does happen to the huge majority of them.