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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

The only reason it got a recent boost was because the west didn't control Tiktok, otherwise you'd be gargling up whatever the news said about the war and agreeing to it, ie. Iraq and Afghanistan.

The marketing was in full force on the other side to make themselves seem like the good guys.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537121.2024.2394292

https://www.jns.org/whistleblower-report-exposes-journalistic-failures-of-bbcs-coverage-of-israel-hamas-war/

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/bbc-admits-misleading-public-by-depicting-pro-palestine-rallies-as-backing-for-hamas/3022390

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/read-devastating-internal-bbc-memo-in-full/

Fuckwits like you are the reason people need to watch real horrors of humans, so they don't call it "marketing".