Please stop flagging this thread as misinformation. Whether or not you believe that the Al Jazeera journalist had any responsibility here, the article is about them denying it.
That is not misinformation. They do deny it.
This is the articles source
According to various rumors, some of which have been picked up by Hebrew-language media with varying levels of credulity,
How is it not?
Because Al Jazeera denies it. That is a fact. If you're saying that the Times is claiming Al Jazeera denies a rumor the Times started themselves, it does not make it any less factual that Al Jazeera denies it. And the article is about Al Jazeera denying it.
It's impossible! Because that would mean that Hamas is hiding among civilians, effectively using them civilians as shields...
Nobody is saying Hamas isn't using civilians as human shields, they're just saying that it doesn't justify bombing civilians...
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Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields. At least, not at scale. Israel and its western co-conspirators manufacture evidence to use to justify the genocide, but none of that evidence is concrete. It’s just intelligence people making baseless claims.
Unless you define "human shields" as "another person within a quarter mile".
Times of Israel – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Left-Center
Factual Reporting: High
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Moderate
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility
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Perfect example of how suspect MBFC is.
Times of Israel has such immense bias in favor of the IDF and the fascist apartheid regime, and such lax fact checking on the one subject people outside Israel read it for that it's not AT ALL credible and MBFC, being basically the hobby of a conservative Zionist, rates it left of center and highly factual 🤦
Eta examples from the "detailed report":
minimally loaded language such as this: US envoy suggests world should rethink PA aid after Israeli teen killed by bomb.
Failed Fact Checks
None in the Last 5 years
Both examples of absolutely atrocious levels of bias on the part of MBFC.
Fox news only being mixed rating is another big reason
Fox News has a mixed score for factual reporting…
But a “Low Credibility Rating”
Low Credibility Rating
For the made up rating mbfc makes then puts no reasoning in their actual post.
MBFC tries to make itself credible then does shit like that where makes it fit what they want. like ranking higher pro Zionist publications
Want to see a headline from an Israeli source with a stronger bias?
Arutz Sheva: IDF confirms: Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages
Their ratings from MBFC:
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Right-Center
Factual Reporting: Mixed
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Moderate
Media Type: TV Station
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility
The bias is strong in the case of TOI. This is extreme bordering on !nottheonion@lemmy.world territory.
And still MBFC rates them center right rather than far right and the factuality "mixed" rather than "low" or "very low".
Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages
My favorite is the only source listed in every article is just IDF, totally credible
It’s all relative. Want to see something from a further right Israeli source?
Israel Hayom:
Report: Former hostage Noa Argamani held captive in Al-Jazeera cameraman's house
Their ratings from MBFC:
Israel Hayom – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Right
Factual Reporting: Mixed
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Moderate
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility
And they are subject to military censorship!
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