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Johannes Ernst

Anybody reporting or reposting on the war in the Middle East: you really need to identify your sources.

So much stuff is being passed around like “everybody knows” and so doesn’t need sources … if there’s anything “everybody [should] know” about this it is that a war like this is fought in the information space and on social media as intensively as on the ground. Without sources, you are an — intentional or unintentional — participant, not a distributor of facts.

#isreal #gaza #hamas #iran

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Tim Erickson, @stpaultim

@J12t

I don't really trust any statements of fact, especially on situations as volatile as this one, unless there is some source.

If you don't provide a source, I assume this is just your opinion (and/or a rumor).

Johannes Ernst

@stpaultim and, of course, in war people lie even more than usual, so having identified sources is only the most basic table stakes.

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