• WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

        For a site calling itself “socialist”, it sure is scared of unabashedly calling out an apartheid ethnostate.

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        11 months 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

        • no step on snek@lemmy.worldOP
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          11 months 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.

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            11 months 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

            • no step on snek@lemmy.worldOP
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              11 months 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?

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                11 months 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

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                    11 months 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