Al Jazeera denies rumor that hostage was held at employee’s home

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Al Jazeera denies rumor that hostage was held at employee’s home
timesofisrael.com

Qatari news network Al Jazeera is stridently denying any link to Gaza-based journalist Abdallah Aljamal, amid unverified rumors that hostage Noa Argamani had been held at his home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat.

According to various rumors, some of which have been picked up by Hebrew-language media with varying levels of credulity, Argamani was held at the home of Dr. Ahmed Aljamal and his son Abdallah. They also claim that Abdallah is an employee of Al-Jazeera.

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Please stop flagging this thread as misinformation. Whether or not you believe that the Al Jazeera journalist had any responsibility here, the article is about them denying it.

That is not misinformation. They do deny it.

This is the articles source

According to various rumors, some of which have been picked up by Hebrew-language media with varying levels of credulity,

How is it not?

Because Al Jazeera denies it. That is a fact. If you're saying that the Times is claiming Al Jazeera denies a rumor the Times started themselves, it does not make it any less factual that Al Jazeera denies it. And the article is about Al Jazeera denying it.

Times of Israel – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Left-Center


Factual Reporting: High


Country: Israel


MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Moderate


Media Type: Website


Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic


MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility

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By: Gianluca Pacchiani

Archive: 9 Jun 2024 19:06:44 UTC

Perfect example of how suspect MBFC is.

Times of Israel has such immense bias in favor of the IDF and the fascist apartheid regime, and such lax fact checking on the one subject people outside Israel read it for that it's not AT ALL credible and MBFC, being basically the hobby of a conservative Zionist, rates it left of center and highly factual 🤦

Eta examples from the "detailed report":

minimally loaded language such as this: US envoy suggests world should rethink PA aid after Israeli teen killed by bomb.

Failed Fact Checks

None in the Last 5 years

Both examples of absolutely atrocious levels of bias on the part of MBFC.

Fox news only being mixed rating is another big reason

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/

Fox News has a mixed score for factual reporting…

But a “Low Credibility Rating

Low Credibility Rating

For the made up rating mbfc makes then puts no reasoning in their actual post.

MBFC tries to make itself credible then does shit like that where makes it fit what they want. like ranking higher pro Zionist publications

Want to see a headline from an Israeli source with a stronger bias?

Arutz Sheva: IDF confirms: Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages

Their ratings from MBFC:

Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Right-Center

Factual Reporting: Mixed

Country: Israel

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Moderate

Media Type: TV Station

Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility

The bias is strong in the case of TOI. This is extreme bordering on !nottheonion@lemmy.world territory.

And still MBFC rates them center right rather than far right and the factuality "mixed" rather than "low" or "very low".

Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages

My favorite is the only source listed in every article is just IDF, totally credible

It's impossible! Because that would mean that Hamas is hiding among civilians, effectively using them civilians as shields...

Nobody is saying Hamas isn't using civilians as human shields, they're just saying that it doesn't justify bombing civilians...

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Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields. At least, not at scale. Israel and its western co-conspirators manufacture evidence to use to justify the genocide, but none of that evidence is concrete. It’s just intelligence people making baseless claims.

Unless you define "human shields" as "another person within a quarter mile".

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This is a war criminal and combatant. Not a civilian. I wonder if Hamas is going to also claim him as an innocent civilian killed by the IDF?

I mean, the Gaza Health Ministry already fails to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants when reporting casualties, so does it really matter what Hamas’ political or military branches claim?