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China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah
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I hate how it’s always done like this too. When a genocide has been lied about it should be just as televised as when the lying was happening. Mostly because now instead of getting apologies from all of my friends for calling me a genocide denier they’ll just still think it was a genocide and I’ll just never talk to them about it again or else I’ll have to come across as smug.
And resisting urges like that is the only reason I still have any friends in the first place.
My comments still get deleted on lemmy.world. Most Lemmy instances are all-in for Five Eyes propaganda. You’d think they’d be better than corporate social media platforms, but not so much.
https://lemmy.world/c/modabuse
I think it’s a systemic issue that can’t be addressed in terms of individual mods.
Most instances are admined by Anglosphere labor aristocrats of the imperial core, who have little to no class consciousness.
They also have an underdeveloped media literacy while believing they have exemplary media literacy. Search for “media bias” and you’ll find tons of bullshit media horseshoe theory charts like the one below, which conflate enlightened centrism with factualness. Look at !world@lemmy.world which uses Media Bias/Fact Check as their North star, ~~which is run by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations~~ [not the same person after all].
They subscribe to the new post-Trump, “post-truth” media literacy curriculum, a curriculum that was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’
Few of these people have read Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent. They tend to stay within the Global North corporate Overton window, not recognizing the bubble they’re in.
Not sure if post-edit CCs work, so upthread ⬆️ @brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml @zephyreks@lemmy.ml @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml @PanArab@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml @nekandro@lemmy.ml @carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml
The funny thing about it is that news is no more or less truthful than it's always been, it's just more upfront about it. People are tribal, and they've been told that their tribe is flawless while the other tribe is flawed.
If you think about this for a second and apply some basic game theory, you'd realize what the natural steady state is.
I know that’s true in the US, specifically. The FCC abandoned the Fairness doctrine, and Citizens United v. FEC removed even the semblance of a barrier between the capitalist class and the political machine. Now most corporate media outlets pretty nakedly align themselves with one of the two political parties. But since both parties always ultimately answer to the capitalist class, these changes are largely cosmetic. It’s still a bunch of kayfabe in a rigged game.
we can name-and-shame. i don' think there is a systemic fix.
@davel@lemmy.ml I agree, all we can do is highlight that this is happening, but we shouldn't be surprised that most instances won't be far from political mainstream in the west
Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: !modabuse@lemmy.world
We really are genocide deniers. We deny the CIA’s fake genocide narrative.