See? When you constantly take in the lies of the CIA-controlled Mockingbird media, you will always be misinformed or misled. Now, the real numbers of deaths in Gaza are coming out and the corporate media continues to be in the pocket of the Zionists.
The Last American Vagabond reports:
Several mainstream media outlets published misleading claims that the United Nations lowered the death toll of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by the thousands. Since going viral the story has been proved to be an outright lie, but the publishers have yet to issue a retraction.
Fox News published an article on May 13, which they have failed to retract and that ended up going viral on social media, falsely claiming that the United Nations had decreased its recorded Gaza death tolls by around 50%. Another claim has been that the death toll was revised down by 10,000. Both are blatant lies that have been spread across various corporate media websites.
The two key claims, manufactured by the corporate media and then pushed online by pro-Israeli social media personalities, are that both the Gaza death toll and the number of women and children killed, have been revised down by the United Nations (UN). The implication is that the Gaza Health Ministry’s (GHM) death toll statistics, which have been reviewed by independent human rights organizations, and the UN itself, are not trustworthy and that Hamas is artificially inflating the numbers in order to demonize Israel.
An Israeli-US Media Conspiracy?
The claim that the United Nations had revised its death toll dramatically went viral after Fox News published a story entitled ‘UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported’. However, this is not where the story originated.
On May 10, at around 6pm, a piece was ran by The New York Sun, with a headline reading ‘United Nations Reports Lower ‘Identified’ Death Toll Among Palestinian Arabs, Noting Conflicting Numbers From Hamas-Run Health Ministry‘.
This piece was written by none other than M. J. Koch, daughter of Julia Koch who is known as one of the richest women alive and of the notorious billionaire Koch family. While the piece falls short of the hyperbolic headlines in later articles contributing to this campaign of disinformation, it does serve as a master class in selective quoting and distortion/misreading of statistics. The piece, written by M. J. Koch, cites two infographics released on the website of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA); one from May 6 and the other from May 8. The first infographic (May 6) lists the total death toll as 34,735, listing the female death toll as 9,500 and the child toll as 14,500.
There is simply no question that the claims made, regarding the UN revising its Gaza death toll, are false. Yet, despite this, these news outlets have not retracted their various pieces or even bothered to amend them and apologize.
Under normal circumstances it could be plausibly argued that a genuine mistake was made in the interpretation of data by a media outlet, however, there is no room for doubt in this case. As demonstrated in this article, separate news outlets used the exact same two infographics and came out with their own separate and equally false narratives that all worked to undermine the legitimacy of the UN’s Gaza death toll, without even citing each other. In order to believe that this was all a mistake, then you would have to believe that not only the journalists who wrote the three original stories, but their editors too, were so incredibly incompetent that they all looked at the UNOCHA graphics and failed to catch their mistakes prior to publishing their articles. You would also have to believe that The Times of Israel, The New York Sun and Fox News didn’t see each other’s stories as well. Even if this was the unlikely case, why haven’t any of them written retractions, taken down their articles, or apologized yet?
What is truly worrying, is that such a large number of media outlets, online pundits, and social media influencers took these claims seriously (many standing by these false allegations to this very moment) when debunking the allegations was as easy as simply clicking onto the hyperlinks and reading the infographics. These are not complex infographics either, the key points are color coded and written in bold, so that even a child could comprehend them.
It appears as if the goal was to create an artificially manufactured media stir about the official Gaza death toll statistics and purposefully attempt to shed doubt upon the information presented by the United Nations. Then, just one day later, the Israeli government decided to publish its own Gaza civilian death toll for the first time and ridiculously claims to have only killed 16,000 civilians.
Why would Israel feel the need to do this now? It is likely that following a viral exchange between British TV-show host, Piers Morgan, and Israeli spokesperson, Avi Hyman, the Israeli government felt the need to act. During the interview, Piers Morgan asks Avi Hyman repeatedly about the number of civilians killed in Gaza, to which he has no response but to claim that the UN’s figures are wrong and come from Hamas. The Israeli spokesperson comes off looking guilty and it became clear that if any other Israeli spokesperson was pressed on this question again, they would also be trapped.
Israel is ramping up its attacks in Gaza and is on the cusp of a major invasion of the city of Rafah, after having blocked the crossing point for humanitarian aid between Egypt and the Palestinian coastal territory. This campaign was designed to belittle the suffering in the Gaza Strip as these operations only seem to increase. This entire facade should go down in history as an example of how the media helped aid Israel in committing a genocide and as one of the clearest examples to date of either a shocking level of corporate media incompetence or a scandalous level of complicity — possibly both.
– Pourquoi êtes-vous autorisé à me donner le nombre de terroristes que vous avez tués mais pas le nombre de civils ?
Incroyable silence de plusieurs secondes après lequel @piersmorgan continue d’interroger le porte-parole du gouvernement Avi Hyman : – Piers, je suis venu… pic.twitter.com/JbqQL0XBPP — Tema l’info (@Tema_Linfo) May 8, 2024
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