Note:

I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

    • WhiteHawk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      712·
      2 years ago

      What are you expecting from “World Socialist Website”? Fact-based reporting? I don’t think so.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        56·
        2 years ago

        I would like the articles referenced here in this community to be fact-based, and I would like our discussion to be based on reality. The situation is bad enough as it is without having to make things up

        • ???@lemmy.worldBannedOPEnglish
          82·
          2 years ago

          While I see what you mean by that, is the title being “biased” equal to the article being biased? Seems like all doubts are resolved upon reading the first paragraph.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            64·
            2 years ago

            Most people don’t read the articles, they read titles and they take the inference and go to the comments and fight. Titles that are misleading are effectively lies.

            In the propaganda war, titles are ammunition

            • ???@lemmy.worldBannedOPEnglish
              52·
              2 years ago

              Okay, good point, like I said, I know what you mean about the title, but does a bad title necessarily mean the article is not factual?

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                53·
                2 years ago

                Yes. Misleading title is a lie. Putting that lie into the title of our community makes this entire discussion premised on a lie. Most people are not going to read the article, and the hasbara / propaganda of the title still gets the eyeballs. So it is a net negative

                • ???@lemmy.worldBannedOPEnglish
                  31·
                  2 years ago

                  Yes

                  So yes that a bad title necessarily means the article is biased?

                  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                    33·
                    2 years ago

                    Yes. Because the article exists as a tuple of both the title and the content, and the title dominates. The title poisons the article