Been seeing a lot of libs say they can't trust the NYT and mainstream news any more but I'm sure there's plenty of reasons to not trust them already. Recent or historical examples

    • SSJ2Marx
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      8 months ago

      NYT did a big story about how Hamas allegedly weaponized sexual assault during operation Al-Aqsa Flood, but the person who did the story was not a journalist and every person she talked to in Israel gave her zero evidence and the main source they ended up quoting was an IOF propaganda mill that has a long history of just making shit up. It failed the most simple fact checking imaginable, stuff like "Hamas killed a pregnant woman" and then checking Israel's list of civilian deaths and not finding a single pregnant person.

      As a cherry on top, many of the crimes that were attributed to Hamas in that piece and related journalism were actually crimes that were well documented - when the IOF committed them in Lebanon.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      They brought in a woman who used to work for Israeli intelligence with absolutely zero journalism experience to write an expose on how Hamas SA'd and beheaded everyone they could.

      • D61 [any]
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        8 months ago

        We were this close, holds up fingers really close together, to a reality where the Israeli Occupation Forces had to go out and behead corpses to turn these false claims into a reality...

        ... instead we get a slightly less bad reality where there's an official corpse cum catching crew that we can joke about.