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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you read the comment chain again, you will see OP mentioned times of israel first, it is the first time I hear of that news agency.

I also never said that Aljazeera is randomly making stuff up. All I wanted to do is adding something constructive to the discussion. It is impressive how strong the emotions towards a simple bias fact check are, but that just reflects how sensitive the topic in the israel-palestinian war is.

The world is complex and everybody tries to construct a picture of reality that is as complete and objective as possible, and for that we rely on the media. But media is biased and the society you are living in is too.

Reuters is probably less biased then Aljazeera and aljazeera is probably less biased than Fox News. That's how media works.

So what can you do? Consider as many sources as possible, use your ratio, knowledge and experience. And to help you getting an overview of all the thousands of news agencies, you may use a little tool like the one I posted. OP has a profile with posts only from one website, and I say that's sus.

Regarding your last question: I haven't read the article yet tbh.

[โ€“] Linkerbaan -2 points 1 year ago

What is even the goal of your original comment if not to discredit Aljazeera? If their article is false then debunk it. If not there is no point to linking some random bias site that is biased themselves.