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by sumthingsumthng 941 days ago
It's a hype train (am I using the term correctly here?), a trend.

Would be nice to trace it back to it's origin. This Hasan-Abi Streamer comes to mind. I only watched like 2 x 5 minutes on two different occasions, on one of which he talked about 9/11 [1], the potential conspiracies of which were a long debated topic back in my Uni days. In those days I learned a bit about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and since then, for over a decade, watched the media and politicians distorting the history AND the narratives quite a bit. It's easy to create a trend here and it feels very much like the goal is again, polarization.

[1] https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/09/was-the-now-forg...

"A Force of Distortion: Effects of Media Bias on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"

https://english.umd.edu/research-innovation/journals/interpo...

"The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel, And The Media"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvddzjvr

"Media Bias in Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: With a Case Study of BBC Coverage and Its Foundation of Impartiality"

https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&con...

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Was the massive wave of support for Ukraine a hype train? I mean, I guess so but my point is that it still has nothing to do with some sort of conspiracy theory. Maybe there's no narrative distortion, people really just do support them?