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Personally, I'd missed it but today's Al Jazeera apparently isn't the Al Jazeera of the 2000s. E.g. seeing them spread 4chan screenshots with obviously doctored images on Twitter to counter claims by Netanyahu about killed children gives me pause. However, the site does appear to have journalistic ambitions in areas largely irrelevant to its owners' political interests, such as this article.
The uneasy compromise I came to so far:
Please consider creating a public news source blacklist for this community. Alternatively we could use some kind of guidance on what are criteria for sources to be accepted. As it is I’m not sure what kind of rule I am breaking.
Also: you are not personally responsible for Holocaust, no need to please Israel, just don’t vote for AfD. Lots of love from Poland.
I privately considered that when we discussed the new rules among the mods but didn't really fancy working on it. Links to RT will be deleted too though, so much is sure. :)
I am not doing this out of a feeling of guilt.
If Al Jazeera was simply critical of Israel I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't have written the message above about 2000~2010 era Al Jazeera either.
The issue for me is that some of their channels have started part-time dealing in complete fakery when it suits their benefactors (cf. the linked Twitter screenshot).
(On the topic of Israel though: This server, feddit•org, is supposed to comply with German law which restricts certain speech. This means e.g. speech in favor of Israel ceasing to exist is not allowed.)
That won't happen. :)
Cheers!