literal high seas piracy.
and otherwise, an attack to the states from which the ships come from.
Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.
Same as instance rules, plus:
literal high seas piracy.
and otherwise, an attack to the states from which the ships come from.
I know they said headline, but cmon actually read the article
There are actual issues with these articles but you can't call it propaganda when half of it is criticizing israel
The point is that a lot of people won't read the articles, they'll just skim the headline and call it a day. "Israeli navy intercepts flotilla bound for Gaza" and "Israeli navy kidnaps protesters in international waters" give very different ideas of the main subject.
fair enough
Notice how the article doesn’t actually call their behavior illegal or cite the international law they broke? They just report that other people are calling it illegal? That’s propaganda.
They do the same thing with trump and fall for it every time.
Like the latest shit about Democrats wanting to give medical care to undocumented immigrants.
Not even close to being true but there they are for the past week repeating it everyday like it's a fact.
Saying Donald trump said --Lie-- Only spreads the lie more.
Just don't report in the lie. Skip that part
"Somalian sailing cooperatives intercept cargo vessel to offer exchange of goods or services"
Intercepts is a neutral term though. Not really repeating mucj propaganda but rather just reporting the fact that they did intercept it.
And they're reporting it because they want everybody to know that theyre conquering the shit out of Gaza and murdering all the Palestinians. But they're reporting it in a way that sounds neutral 😒
Reuters is conquering Gaza..?
The reason mainstream media doesn't mention that it's against international law is because it's not against international law. So they just aren't lying to you, while alternative media is lying to you.
International law isn't written by the UN or whatever organization you might imagine would be passing world legislation. It's just treaties nations agree to. Nations don't want to make it illegal to do things nations want to do. This is why no one has made war illegal under international law. Countries want to still go to war, so it's not illegal under international law. Countries want to be able to do blockades, so blockades are not illegal under international law.
Sure you can say you don't like it, you could say a blockade is wrong, immoral, heinous, or whatever emotional terminology you'd like. But saying a blockade is illegal is either ignorant of international law, or just plain lying.