How Israel and its 'digital army' work to silence the truth about Gaza
In Canada, groups weaponizing claims of media bias are being used to intimidate journalists and reshape coverage of Israel and Palestine under the quiet complicity of Canadian newsrooms
You can feel this in other sites. For example, in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes.
There’s no mad people there commenting that Israel is the people of God, because the discourse there is much more mature than most social aggregators, so the flagging is the only sign some people are watching and “sanitizing” these topics.
It’s obvious in HN because of the wide range of obscure topics (eg installing scaffolding on old British smoke stacks) that occasionally arise to the front page, all the ones on that topic are quickly flagged to oblivion.
You don’t have to be a genius to see the pattern 🤷♀️
Bloody interesting. Why would a tech/cs centered forum do that?
See the rest of the replies to my comment: HN is not only about tech and startups, and it’s influential enough to warrant manipulation.
in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes
It's a programming/technology forum. It's very off-topic and I expect that kind of subject to stay away from it. The bane of the modern internet is newbies posting random stuff all over the place without RTFM and without lurking more.
We'll they're doing a terrible job of it. Everyday I hear a CBC report on Israeli war crimes.
Lemmy world admins are complicit with this
Drop streaming phones into Palestine so Everyone could be a journalist.
