• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      The truth matters for the historical record, but it wasn’t a lie like the other poster said; it was at worst a false conclusion. Instead of treating this like a reasonable mistake, though, they’re cooking up conspiracy theories to assign malicious intent to what is pretty clearly just a result of the fog of war.

      If it was a mistake. I’m reserving judgement until there’s an actual forensic investigation and a truth-and-reconcilliation commission for Israel’s crimes.

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          11 months ago

          People do not need excuses to accuse something of being fake news. Also, there really weren’t a lot of reporters that actually reported this as an Israeli airstrike - they mostly just reported about the claims that were being made of an Israeli airstrike, but tried to stay neutral.

          Though yes, some jumped to conclusions. Reasonable conclusions in my opinion, but that’s bad reporting.

          But if truth matters, then we shouldn’t react to bad reporting with wild and speculative claims about people lying to make Israel look bad.