• Ensign Rick
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    152 years ago

    Yeah the media should be ashamed of how that got out of control. It was one broken English quote from a random Israeli soldier without any fact checking.

    • TWeaK
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      2 years ago

      The Israeli government promoted it first more than news, then Biden parroted it (while lying about seeing photos), which gave the story real legs. There were also supposed journalists all over Twitter spreading it.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      These hoaxes and fake stories really do show how little fact checking happens in most newsrooms.

      • Maeve
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        32 years ago

        They outright knowingly lie, at the behest of our governments. NYT admitted it, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed all this, not to mention Kiriuk (sp?), Manning and many others. The west propagandize and spy on their own citizens and each other. USA has been doing it since our inception and ratcheted it up with Hearst and the Spanish-American war.