More video and eyewitness info on Al Jazeera so far

Also reported on Common Dreams and Middle East Eye.

I haven’t found any reports of any independent investigations yet, hopefully they are underway

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    9 months ago

    That’s true, unless of course the bots manage to downvote you to oblivion. Thankfully there aren’t enough posts on Lemmy to do that just yet.

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      9 months ago

      People disagreeing doesn’t mean they are bots automatically, posts defending the IDF get downvoted because there is more than ample evidence of the IDF committing some of the worst atrocities I’ve seen in my life, and they have been doing it for years.

      There is a slightly more global perspective here than Reddit so it’s less common that there will be echo chambers supporting Western propaganda. People falling for Israeli propaganda today haven’t been paying attention, or they agree with Israels goal of eliminating Palestine. Anyone that has been looking into the situation for longer than a few years has seen every line, every spin, every rationalization Israel can make.

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          Yeah bots can downvote, I’m saying it’s easy to say something was downvoted because of bots, there is no way to prove it right or wrong. It’s also very possible that many actual people disagree with the comment.

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            9 months ago

            Sure, so we will never know. But it’s probably telling enough that accounts frequently come and go here. I don’t keep track, but many of the most active usernames last week are gone this week.

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              9 months ago

              I don’t have that experience, I’ve seen a lot of the same users many times. A lot of people come here as a first step into the fediverse also. I first heard of Lemmy.world after trying to find a better reddit alternative, I may have made an account, but found a different federated instance that was more to my liking.

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                9 months ago

                Welp, their posts were also deleted. As a first step they are trying to get a foothold here, and after they fail they disappear, just to try again and go through the cycle again.