[anonfunction]

It's super hard to tell what's actually happening. Because I've seen other reports that Iran state media halted traffic earlier today, as reported by Washington Post[1]:

> With Trump and Iran each claiming victory, but still far apart on key issues, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remained at a standstill Wednesday.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/08/trump-iran-w...

[femiagbabiaka]

That's because Israel killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon today.

[spiderfarmer]

It's only hard to tell if you rely on the US billionaire controlled media.

[quantummagic]

It's been very hard to watch how many people who, a few years ago, believed everything the media said about say the pandemic, now claim you can't trust them at all. Time makes "conspiracy theorists" out of all of us -- it can be hard to see just how much the media lies and distorts, until they start talking about something you care about.

[AlecSchueler]

> how many people who, a few years ago, believed everything the media said about say the pandemic

Are you sure they're the same people and do you have examples of misinformation these people believed 6 years ago?

[quantummagic]

If you NOW believe that the media is corrupt and full of lies, but also believe that 6 years ago they were 100% truthful, you're being intellectually stunted. If you believed all the media lies during Covid, but NOW you see that the media is lying about the Middle East, you should have the intellectual honesty to at least earnestly consider if you were duped back then. Because that's much more likely than the entire media going from truthful to deceitful in that same period.

[AlecSchueler]

So "No" then?