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TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion (www.vice.com)
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TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Israel’s killed over 11k civilians since Oct 7th.

Bullshit statistic until it is verified by independent sources. Currently, the only source for that number is Hamas and they have a great reason for exaggerating it.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In past conflicts, the death toll provided by Hamas (if you call the Ministry of Health in Gaza that) was largely accurate and didn't differ much from independent counts conducted by the UN.

This article has an example on how it was in a conflict in 2014. There is another article that had more examples, but I cannot find it. It was from the Guardian I believe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67347201

[–] tronx4002@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Great list

[–] piexil@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Israel is not allowing anyone to to conduct outside verification, and hasn't for literal years. They deny UN workers visas, disallow any humanitarian worker from entering or leaving Gaza ( https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/04/03/unwilling-or-unable/israeli-restrictions-access-and-gaza-human-rights-workers)

but Hamas is not fighting outside verification. The UN has also repeatedly verified hamas' death counts in previous instances.

That alone should tell you whose statistic you should be more trusting of, and it's not israels.

[–] Kleinbonum@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Except that in this case, the UN is explicitly saying that the numbers they're quoting cannot be verified and they're merely cutting the numbers Hamas is giving them.

So the question is: if the IDF cannot be trusted, why should we trust the terrorists?

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel hospitals (warcrime) were visible from satellites and independent sources covered it.