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And MediaBiasFactCheck lists The Times of Israel as "Highly Credible with High Factual Reporting" (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by snek to c/politicalmemes
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Also me: the passage screenshot made my Times of Israel is wrong (they don't seem to speak Arabic nor to fact check things) but here is a link to the real news:

https://en.royanews.tv/news/48779/%E2%80%9COctober%207%E2%80%9D%20added%20to%20Jordan%E2%80%99s%20school%20curriculum

These books aren't out yet, but they would distribute them next semester

There's no problem with adding the October 7th history to the books... BUT not sure how I feel about the omission problem were civilians taken hostage are referred to as "settlers" 😐 😐

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[–] hibsen 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You’re starting to make me think I shouldn’t automatically assume some website’s ranking of truth is 100% reliable.

What’s next, I have to start looking into claims people make for reliability?! This is really going to slow down my general read-the-headline-react-immediately policy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have a great idea! What if someone creates a website called MediaBiasFactCheckBiasFactCheck?

Now I know what you're thinking, what if MediaBiasFactCheckBiasFactCheck also is biased? Well, I have a great idea! What if someon-

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Yes, _Times_is far from credible, and someone on Lemmy warned me about them. Money talks so bs can keep on walking into our minds, lives.

[–] Linkerbaan 15 points 9 months ago

No you don't understand. Jeffrey Settlerman won a Pullitzer Prize and the New York Ttimes is a highly respectable outlet. They would never do such a thing as fabricate rape stories with zero evidence except contradictory testimonies.

I am media aware because instead of consuming propaganda sites I only consume respectable American news outlets which are full of anonymous unverifiable witness testimonies which happen to include IDF soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why share a meme that calls into question the validity of the information when the only actual issue is that they used a screenshot of the wrong section of the textbook.

[–] snek 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because I initially searched for info and didn't find anything, then made the meme... and after posting it, I found an article on Roya News. I didn't want to be dishonest, but I didn't want to remove it either because it's clear that these people don't care to read or fact-check the crap they post. So, I edited the post and added the body. Could result in a good discussion, no?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, didn't realize the body was an edit.

[–] snek 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, sorry!

PS: It reminded me of this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-blames-translation-error-for-claiming-calendar-in-children-s-hospital-was-list-of-hamas-hostage-guards/ar-AA1jVEoO

The Israeli military said a video that falsely claimed a basic calendar was a Hamas guard list was a “translation error” after several journalists and native speakers on social media pointed out that the written Arabic words on the calendar were only identifying the days of the week.

No disclaimers here, they actually pretended that Hamas fighter names were on that piece of paper, turns out it was a calendar.

[–] Zehzin 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Soldier 1: Careful soldiers, Intel says we'll encounter an expert guard here named Monday

Soldier 2: I hate Monday

[–] snek 6 points 9 months ago

[–] BB69 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Link to the times article?

[–] hibsen 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] BB69 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! You never know what’s real and what’s fake anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The news is actually correct – its just a screenshot of a wrong page from the book.

[–] Crack0n7uesday -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can't really call anyone settlers any more, unless you move to Antarctica or another planet then all the livable space on Earth has been settled for hundreds of years at this point.

[–] snek 0 points 9 months ago

Except in the West Bank and I'm sure elsewhere on the globe.