• Kabe@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    You may not be a fan of the source, but the facts in the article speak for themselves

    1. Parent went from being a fashion journalist to an Iran “expert” in a suspiciously short space of time
    2. She has published multiple articles making bold claims about the violence perpetrated by the Iranian regime that no other outlet has verified
    3. She has pushed 30,000 death toll figure based on little to no evidence
    4. Her articles often cite unknown or unverified sources, e.g. “a student in Tehran said …”

    Other outlets that challenge the alleged death toll numbers, include Zeteo [link], just FYI.

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      2 hours ago

      You may not be a fan of the source

      That’s an odd way to say that the source is uncredible and a mouthpiece for covering up and whitewashing the crimes against humanity of authoritarian regimes. You know, like the kinds of crimes being discussed here.

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        And outlets like The Guardian and The BBC are responsible for covering up and whitewashing the crimes against humanity committed by Israel and its Western allies.

        Does that make every article written for them fundamentally untrue?

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          Okay, so you just fundamentally don’t understand or care about how source credibility, bias, or anything outside of a black-and-white binary works. Taken in the extreme, I can’t say “Hey guys, check out this InfoWars source*” and then claim “but mainstream outlets are biased and lie too!!” when I’m rightly called out for it.

          Yeah, sources like BBC News are biased for e.g. Israel’s genocide in Palestine. That’s why we normally treat them with a grain of skepticism when they report on things like that; for BBC News specifically, I’d probably just find a better source if I want reporting on Israel in Palestine or Lebanon. Nonetheless, it’s not ridden with unhinged conspiracy theories about how e.g. al-Assad never carried out an illegal chemical attack on his own people or AI-hallucinated disinformation about Alexei Navalny.

          The Grayzone is a quintessential mouthpiece that exists effectively solely for that purpose.


          * Edit: I guess I actually can cite them now and it’d be kind of funny. God bless you, Tesseract.