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Geriatric Gardener

“The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza is ‘systematically biased against Palestinians’, according to an analysis of over 35,000 pieces of content produced by the UK's public broadcaster”

via Middle East Eye on Telegram

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

t.me/MiddleEastEye_TG/15210

TelegramMiddle East Eye📰 The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza is “systematically biased against Palestinians”, according to an analysis of over 35,000 pieces of content produced by the UK's public broadcaster. The study, conducted by the Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM), which monitors how the national media reports on Islam and Muslims, found that the BBC gives Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage than Palestinian ones. According to its authors, the report “reveals a systematic omission of key historical and contemporary context that has acquired an institutional quality at the BBC”, including the genocidal rhetoric used by Israeli leaders – notably Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog - and a failure to scrutinise Israeli claims and denials. Middle East Eye takes a look at the report's findings 👆
#Press#Israel#Gaza
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Jonathan Emmesedi

I love seeing pictures of Kpop idols here.

Sometimes, though, I feel frustrated when I see a photo of an idol I do not know with no identifying details posted.

Could all of us Kpop fans make sure that when we post pictures of idols, we also post their names and the groups to which they belong?

Image: cat keyboard.jpg -- slava --
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 --Wikimedia Commons

#Kpop #KpopPix #Idols #Bias #KpopPictures

@kpop@fedigroups.social @kpop@chirp.social
@KpopGG4ever

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NotImpressed

#Iran #AlJazeera #bias
@palestine

Just a word about Al Jazeera. They are amazing at covering Gaza and West Bank.
Not so good at covering Syria, Hezbollah, Iran. I hear that it's to do with their backer Qatar. Qatar is US compromised. They have their own reasons, no doubt and I hope they're hedging their bets. They recently got closer to Iran. They know that with a direct US/Iran war, they're in the crosshairs. They have the largest US base like 50 miles from Doha. Good luck to them..

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The Conversation U.S.

Dating platforms both reflect and reinforce racial stereotypes and biases common in American culture.

When seeking a romantic partner, people gravitate toward others who are similar and familiar to them – not people whom they have been taught to see as fundamentally different from their family, friends and neighbors.

And part of that is the lasting legacy of laws designed to keep races segregated.

theconversation.com/laws-meant

#LovingDay #relationships #bias #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

The ConversationLaws meant to keep different races apart still influence dating patterns, decades after being invalidatedRomantic attraction is driven by a complex set of factors, including who people grow up around and what is familiar and comfortable to them. But discriminatory laws also play a role.
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Evan :nonbinary_heart:

apnews.com/article/immigration

Language choices are really interesting to me.

"That protest drew hundreds of demonstrators but did not erupt into violence." instead of "That protest drew hundreds of demonstrators and remained peaceful" or "The peaceful protestors did not succumb to agitation by the arrival of the national guard"

Why is the @apnews assuming that the protests will be violent be default?

Your #bias is showing.

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Michela

Ho pubblicato il sequel di "bias cognitivi e politica"
Anche se in fondo so che non serve a nulla,
lo pubblico lo stesso

#biascognitivi #politica  #neuroscienze  #manipolazione  #cervello #neuropsicologia  #criticapolitica #propaganda  #decisionmaking #bias  #cognitivebias  #neuroscience #brain  #manipulation #politics  #media #masspsychology  #michiyospace

michiyospace.altervista.org/co

LandEscape · Come costruire un nemico nella mente del cittadino - LandEscape(Sequel neuroscientifico di Bias cognitivi e politica) Esistono parole, immagini, e rituali politici capaci di modificare la percezione, le emozioni e perfino le decisioni. Non in senso poetico. Ma neurologico. Tutto questo ha un nome: neuropropaganda. Non è una teoria. È una strategia. Non solo influenza la politica: rimodella la realtà percepita. 1. Framing tossico:
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JdeB

#Africa #Mali #StoryMissing #Bias

"Mali BANS French Media AGAIN - But This Time It's Different" [ ± 1-3 min]
by africanvoices

youtube.com/shorts/okxo_crm-uI

Quote by av:
"Jun 7, 2025
Worried about bias? Why has Africa's story been missing? We encourage Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to tell their stories, build archives, train journalists, and reclaim how the world sees Africa."

#YouGoAfrica
#AhTheWordOfTheWhiteMan

YouTubeMali BANS French Media AGAIN - But This Time It's DifferentBy African Diaspora News Channel
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Steve Thompson PhD

Disgusting and irresponsible how they readily promote Hamas propaganda, and why there is a serious disinformation crisis when it comes to Gaza. The media are complicit, some agencies even staffed with regional propagandists. They can't be trusted, and their retractions don't undo the damage done.

"Washington Post, BBC Retract Charges Of Israel Targeting Civilians At Humanitarian Sites"

vinnews.com/2025/06/03/washing

@washingtonpost @BBCNews

Washington Post, BBC Retract Charges Of Israel Targeting Civilians At Humanitarian Sites
vinnews.com · Washington Post, BBC Retract Charges Of Israel Targeting Civilians At Humanitarian Sites - VINnewsNEW YORK (VINnews) — In the wake of Israeli reports which demonstrated that the shooting near the humanitarian zone on Sunday was not by Israeli soldiers but rather by Hamas terrorists targeting civilians coming to receive food from the GHF, the Washington Post has apologized for its skewed reporting of the incident. Join our WhatsApp […]
#Hamas#Gaza#propaganda
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Harald Sack

Excellent keynote in the #SemDH2025 workshop by Laura Hollink on Cultural Bias in Linked Open Data. Laura is addressing all bias related aspects in cultural heritage items itself, in the data representing it, the data schemata, vocabularies, and ontologies on which the data are based, as well as in the knowledge representation languages used to create the schemata.

#bias #eswc2025 #semanticweb #semweb #knowledgegraphs #ethics @nfdi4culture

Laura Hollink presenting her keynote at Semantic Digital Humanities 2025 Workshop, standing in front of the projection screen.
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Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

#JonathanCook

"Why is BBC reporter Barbara Plett-Usher repeating on the News at Ten an entirely unsubstantiated, very dangerous and utterly Israeli-serving claim as a fact? "

substack.com/@jonathancook/not

SubstackJonathan Cook on SubstackWhy is BBC reporter Barbara Plett-Usher repeating on the News at Ten an entirely unsubstantiated, very dangerous and utterly Israeli-serving claim as a fact? In discussing the "pros" and cons of Israel's plan to introduce a new "aid" system in Gaza – in which private US military contractors, under Israel's direction, distribute pitifully small amounts of aid to Palestinians and only in a tightly controlled zone next to the Egyptian border, in readiness for the population's expulsion into Sinai – she states that Israel is "arguing that this [the new scheme] is going to prevent Hamas from stealing aid and so reduce its influence". The "arguing" relates not to whether Hamas is actually stealing aid. It relates to whether Israel's new scheme will "prevent Hamas stealing aid". In other words, the premise for both Israel and Plett-Usher is that Hamas is indeed stealing aid and that Israel's new distribution system is an attempted solution to address that problem. But as the head of the UN World Food Program stated at the weekend: there is precisely no evidence of theft by Hamas. It's just another made-up claim by Israel to advance its interests: to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from Gaza by starving them of meaningful aid. Plett-Usher could have taken care to avoid colluding in Israel's disinformation, and adopted a far more responsible formulation: "Israel argues that its new aid distribution system will prevent, what it claims, is a problem of Hamas stealing aid and thereby reduce its influence. However, UN experts say there is no evidence of Hamas diverting aid." It is the height of irresponsibility to repeat Israel's lies, especially when they serve the goal of advancing its genocide. It makes the journalists who peddle such lies complicit in that genocide.
#BBC#Bias#Gaza
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skry

#AI #Gender #bias #research #jobs #India

"most models reproduce stereotypical gender associations and systematically recommend equally qualified women for lower-wage roles...These biases stem from entrenched gender patterns in the training data as well as from an agreeableness bias induced during the reinforcement learning from human feedback stage."

'The models exhibited varying levels of bias. (1/3)

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