wurzelgummidge @ wurzelgummidge @lemmy.world

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Would be better to do something to reign in the rage farmers in the media.

There was a time, before social media, when news organisations checked facts and sources. Now they can just make up any old shit and attribute it to "some people are saying" or "speaking on condition of anonymity."

amid concerns online disinformation is fuelling the unrest

Online disinformation is fueling many of the world's problems

Billionaire and corporate media isnt going to act in the public’s best interest

I absolutely agree with that. So why do we trust them on anything at all?

A handful of rich Americans are largely to blame.

and Rupert Murdoch.

Where else do people in western countries get their information from?

Intelligence sources said the decision to raise the threat level was not triggered by any single issue or ideology, but noted an overall increase in polarisation in Australia and other western countries.

And who is responsible for this polarisation? Western media!

challenging the established western-led order.

Why should the order be western led?

They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes)

This is true of all your favourite news outlets

by neutral auditors

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Israel has a right to defend itself but Iran doesn't /s

Overwhelming evidence

I wonder why he didn't present any of it then. Looks pretty Donald Trump-like to me

Seeding violent protests and relentless media propaganda are

Surely the U.S. has given up.

What? With all that oil there?

They are brought up to think that way. If it doesn't come from a US/Nato approved source it must be propaganda.

“Political assassinations and continued targeting of civilians in Gaza while talks continue leads us to ask, how can mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator on the other side?” wrote Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on X

Sounds like a fair question to me. Just because you don't like the messenger doesn't invalidate it.

Risk regional war? He's trying to provoke one.

It is a badly written sentence that doesn't appear in the story. The actual sentence reads:

the MNDAA, an ethnically Chinese armed group from the Kokang Special Region on Myanmar’s side of the Chinese border.

... spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ...

They always do, don't they

You could always ask Boeing to make them