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by monlockandkey 920 days ago
The infamous Guardian headline "6500 migrants died since world cup awarded to Qatar" is deliberately misleading to get people to think 6500 people died building the stadiums. Since people naturally assume migrant == working on stadiums.

In a country of 2.6 million people, Qatar is 90% migrants, laborers to white collar workers. Over the span of 10+ years, there will be mortality for that population.

It is like making a headline "450,000 black Americans have died in the year Biden took office". How foolish would a news journal would look if they published a headline like that?