The New York Post have never been a trustworthy publication in the first place, but calling this headline a shameless lie isn’t even a strong enough way to express the new low the American media’s propagandizing has reached, especially in the last few weeks.

To make such an extreme claim up out of thin air is almost unbelievable even by New York Post standards. This is what western media has resorted to in order to keep those with nominally pro-Israeli views invested in this conflict, and we can only expect it to get worse as the diminishing impact of the shock factor continues.

Link to the tweet

  • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    Honestly it’s the slightest bit surprising to me that Reddit is so pro-Israel. I think it goes to show just how astroturfed it is, since it is a fairly similar demographic to TikTok but an actually unbelievable difference in opinion

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      It's been pointed out many times, but Reddit's admin head is Jessica Ashooh, who previously worked for the Atlantic Council (a CIA front). She had no relevant work experience before signing on there.

      It's likely under regulatory capture by the US and has been for a while. It's also predominantly composed of white 20-30 somethings, so...

      • Mokey [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        I think also the I'M MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT MCFACIST AMA ABOUT BEING IN THE WORLDS MOST LETHAL FIGHTING FORCE THE US MARINES interstitial reddit ads. And then zero questions are even close to being rude or unsupportive.

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      It is weird, you go to any of the mainstream/reddit-apporved/local subs and it is completely pro-israel, meanwhile when you stray into any number of smaller and even larger but non-mainstream subs like even F1, it becomes the complete opposite. It is absolutely being targeted by astroturf campaigns that hit only the largest and front page/popular subs.

    • radiofreeval [any]
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      1 month ago

      It's more computationally intensive to make fake video than fake text, which is why Reddit and Twitter (I will deadname big tech as much as I want) are the 9th circle of hell whereas TikTok is only the 4th.

      • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        Also, since a lot of context on tiktok is spoken, it would take another very impressive algorithm to be able to scroll through the highly individualized video feed, find the correct video, comment on it before people who agree with the video content do, and comment enough without looking fake to potentially change the narrative.