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I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

  • ???@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 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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      10 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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        10 months ago

        Yes

        So yes that a bad title necessarily means the article is biased?

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          10 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

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            10 months ago

            I think the truth dies only if you don’t read the full article in this case, as is expected of people before posting here…

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              10 months ago

              I can’t believe most people are reading the article before commenting in lemmy

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                10 months ago

                I don’t believe that either, which is why I sometimes ask them if they have.

                Sadly one cannot force anyone to read… one can only expect others to do it.