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What "illegal content"? What 'disinformation'? All the gore that gets pasted on 4chan should be the opening and closing footage on every evening news.

If people saw the shear brutality and horror the only heads that would fly would be of the politicians and media that exploit conflicts for a profit.

But we can't have that. EU made sure its 'illegal' and that people need to be 'protected' from viewing the fallout of our policies.

Through out the history suppressing alternative points of view was never about protecting anything it was always about staying in power. This is no different.

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> What "illegal content"? What 'disinformation'? All the gore that gets pasted on 4chan should be the opening and closing footage on every evening news.

idk if I remember them all but I've seen:

"hamas beheaded 40 babies!!!" > turns out it was 40 people, including babies, some decapitated

"hamas use trebuchets to send dead bodies" > no proof besides a very low res pic

"hamas dismember hostages by attaching them to two trucks and making them go opposite direction" > the picture was from a youtube thumbnail of a truck pulling duel, a body had been photoshoped on the rope between the two trucks

"hamas put children in cages" > turns out the video was from Syria years ago

"israel knew about it was going to be attacked but let it happen for political clout" > ok buddy but good luck proving that

The real stories are awful enough, I don't even get why people come up with these fake ones, there are real pics/vids of beheading, dead kids, &c. Even the real graphic content is getting pushed away by fake ones which sound more outlandish, people want their dose of atrocities

I think it helps them justify any atrocities committed in the counterattack. Seeing a lot of jubilation on Reddit regarding the impending suffering of 2m civilians, and the “40 dead babies”, etc. are regularly brought up in defense of these feelings.

Just an fyi, your comment will be deemed antisemitic/pro-hamas in a few weeks when the US decides to send in the troops.

I'll let people chose their flavor of terrorism and war crimes on their own. I'm far from pro hamas, we had enough islamist attacks in my country to know what they're like, at least zionists keep their terror attacks in a relatively small geographicical area

Stuff like this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fact-checking-onli...

There are a lot of blatant falsehoods going around that are believable enough that people don't question them.

> many social media users share misleading or baseless claims, including miscaptioned imagery or altered documents, in an effort to shape public perception.

It’s way more likely people are posting videos of paragliders etc. to farm engagement due to financial incentives. Very telling that a news organization states that the sharing of information is an effort to shape public perception.

It is the new age book burning. Forbidden information we can’t dare see for our own good.

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