#Gaza / Egyptian source: U.S. “has accepted” Israel's plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on Iran
According to an Egyptian source, Egypt is preparing militarily along the Gaza border in anticipation of a potential Israeli military operation in #Rafah, Palestine. The source claims the U.S. “has accepted Israel's” plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on #Iran. Egypt is diplomatically working to delay or cancel the Israeli operation, focusing on protecting civilians and ensuring aid can continue to flow. Egypt is also increasing the capacity of displacement camps in Khan Younis and coordinating with both sides to manage the expected influx of displaced people.
"The United States has agreed to back an Israeli operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah in exchange for Israel forgoing a major strike on Iran, unnamed Egyptian officials have told the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet."
The last thing that we need in a ferocious and propaganda war, is fake news.
A Republican state representative in Michigan, Rep. Matt Maddock, claimed on social media on Wednesday night that he had photo evidence of “illegal invaders” arriving at Detroit Metro Airport.
The buses were not for “illegal invaders”; they were for the men’s college basketball teams that landed at the Detroit airport to compete in the NCAA tournament known as March Madness.
“The four men’s basketball teams competing in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 at Little Caesars Arena arrived at DTW Wednesday evening.
But Barrett Henderson, Gonzaga University’s assistant athletic director for communications, confirmed to CNN on Thursday that the team flew on an Allegiant plane, landed at Detroit Metro airport on Wednesday evening in the hour before Maddock’s post, and boarded buses that were waiting at the airport.
Rob Anderson, sports information director at Creighton University, told CNN that their team landed at the airport on Wednesday afternoon, had buses waiting and received a police escort as well.
He wrote a new post saying, “We know this is happening” and that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are “pouring into our country.” He added: “Since we can’t trust the #FakeNews to investigate, citizens will.
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However, I recently decided to quit my account on a Dutch "tech nerd" site (https://tweakers.net/ ) after ridiculous mismoderation of my reactions (followed by the type of pointless "discussion" you also ran into). IMO this is a pity because I made a lot of in-depth and critical contributions to that site (often upvoted, but also misread, misinderstood, or against common opinion and heavily downvoted). It makes me think of the title of an old song called "We fade to grey" (*) (by "Visage").
Like most people, I hate fake news. But who gets to decide the criteria?
At what point does combating fake news, by silencing opinions (in particular when based on provided or deducable facts), become censorship, and/or increase polarization (*)?
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.
This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.
New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.
‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.
#domicide must be recognised as an international crime
The massive, arbitrary destruction of civilian housing in violent conflict should be recognised as a crime under international law, the UN’s independent housing rights expert told the General Assembly today [28 October 2022].
Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT.
Während des Ersten Weltkriegs kursierten im Deutschen Kaiserreich Gerüchte über Geheimlazarette, in denen besonders entstellte Verwundete versteckt wurden.
Oktober 1917: Eine Gegendarstellung in der lokalen Presse belegt diese #FakeNews auch für #Unna im #Ruhrgebiet. Zeugen die Gerüchte vom schwindenden Vertrauen gegenüber Militärbehörden oder gaben sie vorallem Angehörigen von vermissten Soldaten Hoffnung?
Haaretz Editorial: "The freedom from arbitrary arrest marks a line between real, freedom-seeking democracies and 'pseudo democracies.' The police under Ben Gvir’s shadow cannot be relied to give freedom of expression the importance it warrants"
"Haaretz is widely considered Israel's leading liberal news source, but it has published and promoted some of the most harmful propaganda in support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza."
"It appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of fake news and government propaganda."
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
1of the most disturbing things re: the conversation is the denial of history, e.g. assertion that Jews mostly descended from medieval #Khazar converts (conversion was real but limited)
I've always been fascinated by the history of both the pagan #Khazars & conversion
Who knows that the Caspian Sea was called the Khazar Sea, or that the victory of the Khazars was as important as the Battle of Tours?
"The Washington Post made the remarkable admission that Israel attacked al-Shifa Hospital to “pressure Hamas to reach a deal on hostage releases.” This admits Israel is using hospitals as a bargaining chip, talk of Hamas bunkers and weapons cache is a lie, and the attacks on hospitals are then deliberate state terrorism and war crimes."
Michigan GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at Detroit airport. It was Gonzaga’s March Madness team ( www.cnn.com )