cross-posted from: https://freefree.ps/users/faab64/statuses/114885039540867898
For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse, punished those trying to end it and helped, funded, protected and armed the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.
#NeverAgain #NeverForget #NeverForgive #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #USpol #EUpol #Politics
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I think I tracked down the source for that image. It seems to be by Omar Al-Qattaa and pictures a child in Gaza with cerebral palsy and malnutrition. According to this, Malnutrition can be a side-effect of cerebral palsy, due to difficulties swallowing etc. Which is probably made harder by the war, which is bad, but not reflective of the general population.
It’s always pretty hard to find the sources for these images and when you do, it often has some special circumstances or is just from Yemen or smth.
Apart from that, are there no rules here for news-articles or NSFL tags?
Oh, geez. He’s got CP. That definitely invalidates the importance of the message and image.
It does make it misleading. If it was included in an article with the context, that would be fine. I believe most people joined this particular community to read news articles, not to see who can find an image that out of context supports thier political view.
Hahahahahhaha!
Jesus christ!
I always wondered, do they pay people like you in rubles or do you just do this in your spare time out of conviction?
I think finding sources for things is good. It doesn’t invalidate the message; there are plenty of photographs of malnourished children in Gaza without CP. Was it internally misleading? I don’t know. But I think we can assume the benefit of the doubt that the writer just chose an image from search results that looked emaciated.
They usually pay people to spread the misinformation.
Who’s they?