Thanks for the reminder. We'll use that in the Free Republic style book. 
Posted on 10/25/2023 9:14:56 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The Associated Press has some nerve browbeating readers over the alleged scourge of Israel-Hamas war “misinformation” on social media despite its own guilt of pushing terrorist propaganda.
AP pontificated in its Oct. 24 headline how “Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts.” The leftist outlet lectured how “[i]n the days since Hamas militants stormed into Israel early Oct. 7, a flood of videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.” Yes, AP actually sought to humanize the terrorists, who committed genocide against Israeli civilians, as “militants” while simultaneously whining about social media misinformation about the conflict—but more on that later. AP continued to obvliviously act like it was legitimate social media traffic cop: “While plenty of real imagery and accounts of the ensuing carnage have emerged, they have been intermingled with users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.”
This is the same AP that was one of a slew of left-wing media outlets that wielded Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry talking points to falsely blame the Oct. 17 bombing at the al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza on an Israeli airstrike. “Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City hospital, Health Ministry says,” read AP’s knee-jerk Oct. 17 headline, which relied on the word of Hamas. A U.S. intelligence assessment later concluded that Israel was not responsible for the bombing. Both the U.S. House and Senate intelligence committees also absolved Israel. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) instead placed the blame squarely at the feet of a “failed rocket launch by militant terrorists.” The original AP article’s argument took the Hamas terrorists’ falsehoods hook, line and stinker and now reads terrible in retrospect.
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Oops, I swore never to capitalize ap after they decided (B)lack people need BIG first letters, but white people don’t deserve them.
Thanks for the reminder. We'll use that in the Free Republic style book.
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