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I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

  • ???OP
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    1011 months ago

    While I see what you mean by that, is the title being “biased” equal to the article being biased? Seems like all doubts are resolved upon reading the first paragraph.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Most people don’t read the articles, they read titles and they take the inference and go to the comments and fight. Titles that are misleading are effectively lies.

      In the propaganda war, titles are ammunition

      • ???OP
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        411 months ago

        Okay, good point, like I said, I know what you mean about the title, but does a bad title necessarily mean the article is not factual?

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          Yes. Misleading title is a lie. Putting that lie into the title of our community makes this entire discussion premised on a lie. Most people are not going to read the article, and the hasbara / propaganda of the title still gets the eyeballs. So it is a net negative

          • ???OP
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            211 months ago

            Yes

            So yes that a bad title necessarily means the article is biased?

            • @[email protected]
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              011 months ago

              Yes. Because the article exists as a tuple of both the title and the content, and the title dominates. The title poisons the article

              • ???OP
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                111 months ago

                I think the truth dies only if you don’t read the full article in this case, as is expected of people before posting here…

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 months ago

                  I can’t believe most people are reading the article before commenting in lemmy

                  But even supposing they do, all the people who scroll past the article in the feed, are being poisoned by the lie in the title

                  • ???OP
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                    111 months ago

                    I don’t believe that either, which is why I sometimes ask them if they have.

                    Sadly one cannot force anyone to read… one can only expect others to do it.