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Honestly, this shit had been debunked like an hour after the original tweet. While there may have been a dip in some activity, the original tweet didn't prove anything since http requests don't prove user activity.
And of course you will try to convince yourself you arent spreading propaganda in other instance and cherry pick stuff that obviously isnt propaganda.
Additionally, removing this comment comparing Hamas with Republicans was you:
Also you seem to like using PressTV, an Iran state-controlled outlet, in your posts on World News on lemmy.ml. You think there is no propaganda there?
Indeed it was, and I stand by that removal! In context they were actually saying the Palestinian people deserve genocide because... checks notes Hamas won an election in 2006.
You must have noticed this was their previous comment in that thread:
... but for some reason you decided to only show their second comment here? 🤔
Anyway, if you don't think that is bigotry we'll have to agree to disagree; I'm not interested in debating it. But icymi do see also the rest of that user's modlog 🙄 (spoiler: this person claiming LGBTQ rights as their reason to support genocide was eventually banned by their own instance for transphobia)
PressTV is absolutely propaganda, and I am selective about what I repost from them - it's usually something I think is news (or a newsworthy perspective) which is not being reported by western sources. Eg, this is the most recent thing I posted from there. The primary source for the story (the IRGC) is named in the headline; it isn't like it is pretending to be something it isn't. Do you think that post is not newsworthy? Is it better for people not to know that the IRGC is saying that? Or, what alternate source could I have linked to about it? I also post things from NYTimes, BBC, NPR, DW, etc, but I don't think any of them covered that story. (Are those outlets all strictly not propaganda in your view?)
The comment you links absolutely is shit with that last part. However the other comment wasn't something worth removing unless it was a site ban + content removal.
And with the outlets and propaganda. NPR and DW aren't good examples of western propaganda, as they tend to be less biased. NYT more. BBC is mixed.
And you seem to misunderstand something here. I am not a campist. Propaganda exists on both sides and it is important to keep that in mind. Though propaganda from dictatorships tend to be a bit more wild and obvious.
imo it was ignorant bigotry also. 🗑
If you think NPR is "less biased" I highly recommend reading this which might help you see how they are anything but - that article in particular is about how NPR was instrumental in bolstering domestic support (particularly "reluctant" or "critical" support among their "progressive" listener demographic) for the Iraq war from the beginning right up to the end of it. See also this and this for somewhat-more-recent analyses of NPR's propaganda form.
So, for example, in the current war in Iran... you'd say both sides are wrong? You think the US should stop attacking them... but also Iran should stop defending themselves? 🤔
And you think people who read DW's Iran section are getting an unbiased view of the situation, while people who read !worldnews@lemmy.ml are being fed "propaganda" because I post some PressTV reporting of IRGC statements there?
So your proof is a nearly 20 year old article on a pro-Iraq war correspondence and interviewing a right wing pundit during Trump's first candidacy? It hardly says that NPR is a propaganda mouthpiece, but rather says they have made mistakes as all outlets have done. Additionally, you dont have to accept 100% of what an outlet reports.
And US was wrong to attack Iran, but that doesn't rule out both sides from doing bullshit reporting. It isn't that black and white when it comes to sources.
And I am almost certain that stuff in WorldNews@lemmy.ml is pretty biased because it is lemmy.ml. As long as Dessalines, Nutomic and davel are around, I am pretty sure it will stay pretty biased.
If you just listen to (or read) their reporting about the current wars you'll see they're still doing the exact same things described in that (almost) 20-year-old article. These aren't mistakes, it's their standard operating procedure.
it does, actually. Even when they are being critical of the Trump administration (which they often are) they're doing it from the standpoint of the (to borrow a lovely term from UK English) loyal opposition.
I agree here. Which reminds me that after you called me out for posting PressTV links you didn't answer when I asked you this:
These weren't rhetorical questions; I'm actually curious what you think.
Which news communities do you think are unbiased, though? You said earlier:
Are there some news communities which you would consider "less biased" but which would actually remove (what you acknowledge is) propaganda from the NYT? (I doubt it, but, surprise me?)
I think every outlet has biases, and I agree some are more obvious than others. But allowing only the less-obviously-so propaganda from one "side" doesn't strike me as being less biased at all.
Fwiw if you look at !worldnews@lemmy.ml right now you'll see plenty of western propaganda outlets there amongst the Iranian and Chinese etc sources.