Palestinian rockets kill 2 Israelis, but 26 Gazans simply "die" under mysterious circumstances.
Nice switching between active and passive voice.
Also, kudos for leading with 2 Israeli deaths, which suggests they are more important & newsworthy than 26 Palestinians.
4. Presenting an unprovoked Israeli attack against a civilian population as Hamas and Israel "trading blows" is masterful propaganda from @Reuters, suggesting equal complicity and casualties.
5. The @washingtonpost presents an Israeli terror attack on a sacred Mosque during Ramadan presented as a “clash.” Many worshippers’ bodies "clashed" with Israeli bullets.
The word "clash" is a favorite of the dishonest journalist, allowing them to gloss over who is actually responsible. Every big outlet is using the trick.
"Clash", in mediaspeak, is just a euphemism for "massacre," as I wrote about in 2019 (see link).
Much of the pushback against criticism of Israeli crimes is actually orchestrated by the govt of 🇮🇱, who pay supporters to form troll armies online. I wrote about this last week.
Big social media companies refused to comment when I showed them evidence.
Here's @CBSNews claiming that "deaths are mounting on both sides". Is 26 (plus hundreds of serious injuries) to 2 really worthy of "both sides" treatment? And how is 2 people a "mounting" death toll anyway?
Another attempt to sow confusion where there should be clarity.
9. Israel is not "responding" to attacks. It carried out an unprovoked one against civilians celebrating Ramadan.
Also, note the use of the passive voice; "20 dead", not "Israel kills 20". Horrible reporting from the @EveningStandard
10. The Israeli government, as a policy, always tries to present itself as "responding" or "reacting", and not the initiator.
@dwnews, @cgtnamerica, @MSN and @CBCNews all followed the convention too, doing their work for them and whitewashing a massacre.
11. "Trade rocket fire" makes it sound like modified bottle rockets from Gaza are equivalent to the most advanced and deadly missiles Raytheon and General Synamics have to offer, @dwnews
12. A volcano- a force of nature- "erupts." Violence doesn't erupt: it has perpetrators. But that's the point of this lanaguage: to hide who is killing whom.
13. Here the @nypost presents Hamas as the aggressor, while Israel was merely involved in "clashes."
Unreal.
14. You'd never guess from this @Reuters
headline that the guy had rammed two Palestinians with his car before this photo was taken.
15. Huh, I wonder why that building "collapsed" @Reuters.
Here is Twitter itself adding to the propaganda blitz
Leaked 🇮🇱 PR docs urge its propagandists to stress they are fighting Hamas, not 🇵🇸 civilians. Twitter is doing its job for them.
Were those kids Hamas? Or those worshippers at the mosque? No. But Twitter defames them anyway.
17. It wasn't a "blunder"; it was a calculated and premeditated attack on a civlian population. Shameful article from @thetimes
18. In which the Financial Times presents Palestine as the aggressor and Israel as attempting to "calm tensions." Utter trash.
E.M. owes his success and fortune to Mike Griffin, the head of the CIA's investment division, who took him under his wing and gave SpaceX massive government contracts, keeping his business empire afloat.
[Thread] There is an orchestrated media war being carried out against Venezuela🇻🇪.
Its goal is regime change, and it is being led by liberal outlets like the Guardian.
In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, so you can understand how they pass propaganda off as reporting.
What is the "evidence" of electoral fraud the Guardian presents?
Oh, it is an "analysis" carried out by the opposition itself, as well as hearsay from sympatheirc academics.
Let's not inform readers that the opposition has pulled this trick in every election since 2000 (except the ones they won), where they cry fraud, and have never presented any credible evidence whatsoever.
Let's also not inform readers that there were actually nine opposition candidates running against Maduro, and that only Gonzalez refused to say he would accept the results.
That "number" is four countries -- all of them right-wing Latin American nations.
Even the United States 🇺🇸 has walked back its Gonzalez claims, the Biden Administration clarifying that it has NOT recognized Gonzalez as the victor.
Last time I checked last week, more than 40 countries had endorsed the elections and recognized Maduro -- over ten times as many nations as have recognized Gonzalez.
Yet, through verbal slight-of-hand, the Guardian is presenting Maduro as isolated, and the extremist, denialist position as mainstream.
An extremely timely article, given that the US is supporting a coup attempt there:
I spoke to dozens of US observers of the Venezuelan election, and they told me they saw nothing suspicious, and they reject the US govt's fraud narrative.
[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.
In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it.
First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated."
Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the opposition has claimed they have won literally every single election since 2000, have produced zero evidence for this, and have, every time, been proven to be lying.
Not telling readers this is a crime against journalism and tantamount to incitement.
This is absollutely ludicrous. There are plenty of opposition-aligned media here.
And the idea that a single person in Venezuela doesn't know that the opposition claims they won is ridiculous.
I ran into the amazing @RaniaKhalek, who told me that the United States is trying to destroy the Venezuelan government, and is already crying fraud in the upcoming elections. 🇻🇪
"There is no comparison" between US and Venezuelan elections, @GloriaLaRiva, former presidential candidate for the @pslnational told me.
In Venezuela fraud is "not possible", while in the US, the Dems and Republicans are fighting to keep 3rd parties off the ballot.
@GloriaLaRiva @pslnational The final pro-government rally was massive.
More than one million people poured I to central Caracas to hear President Maduro talk, sing and dance.