Keith In PNWNov 16, 2024
Randahl Fink

This is the most important news about disinformation in Europe, I have seen in a long time.

Journalist Richard Sanders reveals how Reuters incorrectly portrays football violence in Amsterdam as being an attack on Jews, when in fact it was a group of Israeli hooligans carrying out the violence.

Reuters and other outlets are now trying to hide their misinformation, but Richard Sanders has gathered the evidence.

This is how we are being played as European media consumers:
https://youtu.be/DvTyg1kJGzM?si=UXOu3mRqoxivyw8D

What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam

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Nov 14, 2024 at 8:29pmIvory for iOS
Show threadCluster FckuNov 14, 2024
@randahl The disinformation feels a bit like the weapons of mass destruction false pretence decades ago mixed with the Jan 6 narrative distortion. This youtube shows actual footage including by the Dutch teen reporter. Thanks to independent reporters and a well established video platform.
Show threadAmsterdam EricNov 15, 2024
@randahl I wrote about this today, if you’re interested: https://becomingdutch.substack.com/p/wait-what-happened-in-amsterdam
Wait. What happened in Amsterdam?

The war in Gaza invades my city. Where will it go next?

Becoming Dutch
Show threadGiliellNov 15, 2024
@randahl It's the deafening silence all around. German news will report how Israel plans to annex more land in West Yordan as if that were not a crime against humanity.
Show threadRandahl FinkNov 15, 2024
@Giliell "… and in urban planning news, a new construction project in Israel is… "
Show threadMatthias KrämerNov 15, 2024
@randahl @Giliell @bifouba I can't wrap my head around the media dynamic ending in such a massive misrepresentation throughout Europes media landscape. What's the theory, how can you bring all of Europes media to do this?
German media I understand, but Dutch, British, French, Spanish? Or are there heterodox report about this in mainstream media in other countries?
Show threadBilal Barakat 🍉Nov 15, 2024

@Kraemer_HB @randahl @Giliell

After decades of embedded anti-Palestinian racism, no explicit coordination is needed.

Show threadMatthias KrämerNov 15, 2024
@bifouba @randahl @Giliell That's a good point. But I feel it's not enough to dismiss the original sources (2 non-Palestinian videographers) and the non-Arab victims of hooligan violence that arguably exist in Amsterdam.
(I now feel like a truther going down the rabbit hole, doesn't feel nice, and that's part of the explanation, too: There were sources with big authority telling the wrong story, e.g. Israeli government sending a rescue mission, and Reuters.)
Show threadBilal Barakat 🍉Nov 15, 2024

@Kraemer_HB

Anti-"woke" brainwashing is enough for US evangelical Christians to dismiss the literal teachings of Jesus Christ (!), but you don't think that racism is enough to make racist Whites dismiss other Whites who are less racist? Rabbis (!) being dismissed by non-Jewish and Jewish Israel supporters alike for daring to consider Palestinians as human equals etc. etc.

As a matter of fact, that's an archetypical story of how the other shoe drops for many decent people: when they realise that they, as nominal members of the in-group, are immediately treated as enemies the moment they question the group consensus.

@randahl @Giliell

Show threadMatthias KrämerNov 15, 2024
@bifouba @randahl @Giliell I think neither the original sources nor other victims of hooligan violence question racism. Racism, as your religious examples, is a belief. It's not challenged by simple facts.
The point here is that serious journalists could be made to state something as simple facts that clearly are not, according to the original sources.
I'm shocked and ask what can be done to bring them all (99%) to the consensus to report that the sun is shining all over Bremen right now.
Show threadBilal Barakat 🍉Nov 15, 2024

@Kraemer_HB

I maintain that the mechanism I mention is indeed relevant.

There is a narrative consistent with their racist beliefs and one that isn't. They will default and defer to the former, and just because there are other white Europeans who vouch for the latter doesn't change that.

Also, this is something anti-genocide protestors have been trying to point out all this time: if you're able to convince people that clear-as-day “remote” facts like "Israel is committing war crimes" aren't true, then it's only a matter of time before you can convince them that what they can see outside their window with their own eyes isn't true. Because it's just a difference of degree, not of kind. And that everyone should be concerned about the general dangers inherent in reality-denying anti-Palestinian discourse, whether they feel particularly strongly about Palestine or not.

@randahl @Giliell

Show threadMatthias KrämerNov 15, 2024
@bifouba @randahl @Giliell That fits. Journalists learned for years now to stick to narratives. Originally it was not to form the narrative of a single report after an overarching (pre-established) narrative, but to connect the news of yesterday with today and stay consistent to aleviate the user experience of their audience. That's more gratifying for the audience, so they stay with their usual media.
Only sometimes, that approach bites reality in the butt. It's similar to AI hallucinations.
Show threadDjembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪Nov 15, 2024
@randahl
OMG I’m furious! I was lied to by multiple outlets I trusted. Thank you, Randahl, for bringing this to our attention. I will definitely start supporting DDN.
Show threadDjembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪Nov 15, 2024
@randahl
PS: Isn’t @EUCommission addressing disinformation? Reuters et al. should be fined.
Show threadxi timpinNov 15, 2024
@randahl Everyone needs to send this video to the head of news at every TV channel in your country. Then, perhaps, they will understand that we know what they are doing and why.