“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”
@aral , I respect your efforts to help the cause, but by sharing stuff like this, you don't.
We should all be careful with "news" like this. If a piece of news doesn't cite a source, there's no other viable source, and it dives heavily into any bias, huge chances are that it's fake.
@aral I am from Bosnia and Herzegovina; it would be only fitting, if we're judging stereotypically, that I should despise CNN and trust the Arabs.
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No, the thing is that I really can't take stuff like this without several viable sources as true. I'm an ex-journalist myself, and fact-checking is something that needs to be done to stop the paranoia and further hate.
Judging by your previous posts, we're on the same side. But I'll always be skeptical.
@aral Hum, that's not quite what is reported in that article. What it reports, via very indirect sources, is that (a) the US might defund the UN, and (b) that the UN might cut the food program.
@Miro_Collas@adachika192@palestine Confirmation from a white person? Is Bilal inherently untrustworthy because he is an Arab-American? I’m having real trouble understanding this.
@aral
Playing the racism card? That's disappointing. Especially because you have no idea whatsoever what race I am, you made an assumption. Which could be seen as racist too, perhaps.
Confirmation from a different source. it is not at all unusual to wish to see news confirmed from other sources.
@Miro_Collas@adachika192@palestine I didn’t realise it was a card. My question is what makes an Arab-American who was in the actual meeting sharing his recollection of his first-hand experience at the meeting an untrustworthy primary source? I don’t think I’ve gotten an answer to that question.
@Vittoria@rimu No, that clearly is also your job as your news organisation routinely quotes IDF spokespeople without questioning whether they are lying or not.
@aral@rimu guess what, we also routinely quote Hamas, and NGOs, and UNRWA, and pretty much all the other actors involved in the conflict, plus reporters on the ground and eyewitnesses, and that's how sources work, you get at least two, preferably three..
@Vittoria@rimu And here you have one so take it for exactly what that’s worth. Seriously, go ask Blinken if the guy is lying or not then report back. That’d be useful. That’s your job. You’re the journalist.
@Vittoria@rimu It’s not an opinion, though, is it? It is a recollection. And the distinction is critical. The source is not opining about what Blinken said, he is reporting it.
So you can say:
I don’t believe the source is credible – misremembering? lying? (Why? No one in this thread has actually given me a reason for this.)
A single source is unreliable by our standards (excellent, I love it: Now contact Blinken’s office and get confirmation or a denial. That’s your job.)
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