Stop posting news as unsourced screenshots!! Please, I beg!!
Include the link to the source or it didn't happen!!!
And preferably include the source (website) name and date/year in the post too!!!
This has been a very loud, but very humble beseechment from your local media professional, thank you for your time
Seriously though, the spread of misinformation and disinformation is higher than ever, thanks to AI, botnets, 4chan, fascists, psyops, etc. Please use good sourcing!!! This is legit a way to help keep your communities safe.
If you see something and you don't know if it's true, or if the source is reliable, the two best/most comprehensive places to check are:
Snopes - to check if something is true/real, including social media posts and images/videos
Media Bias/Fact Check - to check if a website, news outlet, or other source is reliable. They rate outlets on accuracy of reporting and on political bias, and maintain detailed fact-checking records
I encourage you to check them whenever you're not sure about something important - the bigger and more upsetting it is, the more important it is to check! And I also encourage you to bookmark them for whenever are worried you might be reblogging something untrue or made by AI!
Stay safe out there, yall. Keep each other safe. By adding source links!!!
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That food delivery app developer whistleblower AMA was a hoax.
Suspected in the comments but confirmed by journalist Casey Newton. The story and various supporting evidence provided to him was AI generated.
For most of my career up until this point, the document shared with me by the whistleblower would have seemed highly credible in large part because it would have taken so long to put together. Who would take the time to put together a detailed, 18-page technical document about market dynamics just to troll a reporter? Who would go to the trouble of creating a fake badge?
Today, though, the report can be generated within minutes, and the badge within seconds. And while no good reporter would ever have published a story based on a single document and an unknown source, plenty would take the time to investigate the document’s contents and see whether human sources would back it up.
[from Casey Newton's article]
Stay skeptical out there, especially for stuff that seems like 100% confirmation of "these people are evil" kinda stances that you already believe.
Something unremittingly bleak about a goddamn country starting "crisis actor" conspiracy theories to deny their crimes. A term invented to deny the deaths of children at Sandy Hook in 2012 is now used to deny the deaths of children in Gaza in 2023.
As the community note says, this isn't a crisis actor. This is a guy who posts on Instagram. A influencer who posts videos online of breaking events...is seen at a lot of breaking events. To Israel, this is a sign of a conspiracy. In fact, some of those images aren't even him, or aren't even related to Palestine at all; one image included in other posts targeting Saleh Aljafarawi is a Halloween costume from Thailand. That article says "pro-Israeli accounts" tweeted this, but it's the literal, official Twitter account of Israel posting this shit, next to their comedy sketches that somehow make trans people the punchline bc fascists only have one joke the whole world wide I guess
Like. It's not new for a government to deny the reality of its atrocities. It is new for that government to outright use a conspiracy theory term devised by Alex fucking Jones, or to, when called on doing so, defend it as a "meme" (also bizarre to see hardcore Zionists use a term crafted for especially antisemitic conspiracy theories). Everything rancid about the world in 2023 congealed into a single tweet, right here
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I was watching a conspiracy debunking video this morning, and this man just said the realest shit.
"It's not even a secret shadow government anymore, it's just the government. They used to piss down your back and tell you it's raining. Now they are pissing on your face and telling you it's piss and you are just sitting there covered in piss complaining about gender neutral bathrooms"
Anyway Miniminuteman on YouTube is a new favorite content creator.
I present to you: excerpts from the 2024 JVP Haggadah!
the full thing is available on the internet archive here so you dont have to go to their website to see it! i am writing this as a comedic critique of what i think is a revolting piece of cultural appropriation. i hope you enjoy.
we start off strong with the front cover, which is titled with:
JVP Haggadah 5784/2024
EXODUS FROM ZIONISM
on the first actual page, we are immediately met with this:
ok, my hebrew is not fantastic, but im like 80% sure this is grammatically incorrect. wouldnt you say chag pesach sameach? at least im willing to admit im unsure. unlike jvp's editors.
excuse me???????
this line is taken out of context on purpose. because the jokes write themselves.
listen, im specializing in zoology, not botany, but im pretty sure strawberries are not native to gaza. also spoon??? is that for me bc reading this takes most of mine????
i thought this was a passover seder????
we are NOT beating the rich jews with international money and dual loyalties allegations.
oh no. im going to intentionally cut the words off the moment it starts to sound like satire
"Q1: Why is this Passover different than other Passovers?
Genocide." cutoff
"Q2: Why do we eat bitter herbs / maror on this Passover-amidst genocide?
This is a time for mourning. Not celebration. White phosphorus;" cutoff
"Q3: Why do we dip twice this Passover?
Palestinians are starving and they are gunned down waiting for flour. They are thirsty and do not have access to potable water.
Adding salt to water is an insult in times of blockade," cutoff
"Q4: Why do we use pillows and recline on Pesach during mass displacement?
How can we recline while millions of" cutoff.
yeah because jews have never had a passover while experiencing a genocide before right. this is just... completely not what passover is about lmao
kid 1: michael scott (sounds like he wrote this)
kid 2: ben shapiro (owning the libs, the freethinker he is) (i do not like ben shapiro i am making fun of him)
kid 3: matt bernstein
kid 4: me at 15 when my friends gave me the good jew/bad jew litmus test
next we have a poem! by poet Basman Aldirawi. his instagram feed is mostly AI generated images of cartoon violence. and this:
this is who JVP decided to feature in a Haggadah. they featured a man who celebrates the slaughter and rape and kidnapping of jews (within the 24 hours of it happening.) for a holiday about jews escaping being murdered. the poem features lines about cooking with blood. which is literally medieval blood libel. awesome
ok next theres a template of a letter to write to jewish community establishments. i dont think i have to tell you what the letter is for. theres also one to send to the new york times. im sure they read them all
and now. i present to you: the 10 spiritual plagues of genocidal zionism. by nomy lamm who is actually a prominent figure in feminist punk circles which upsets me. but also shes annoying as hell
next up: a "multi religious" spiritual healer manages to make "dayenu" an even more annoying song than it already was:
(by the way. i know we are talking about a religious holiday, but i would advise you to stay away from any sort of faith healer who charges money. its scammy pseudoscience. please see an actual therapist for counseling or go talk to a rabbi if you need spiritual guidance.)
okay blah blah blah boring pages that are just mistranslations and unrelated topics and tacky rewritten versions of ancient traditional prayers
more attempts at squeezing money out of (((their))) pockets. i pinch pennies so hard the us government had to stop making them. be so serious jvp lots of jews are broke as hell
now the tzedak-i mean tikkun olam box. i know yall were interested in this one.
yes, dear reader, jewish voice for peace has just claimed that "tzedakah" is zionist propaganda.
moving on.
they literally ask you to invent new history. they ask you to revise history. this is ridiculous
third cup of wine is turned into a workers rights manifesto. im sure marx would have loved that
more terrible poetry
fourth cup of wine is worse:
"As part of our search forJewishness beyond Zionism and as we head towards the end of the seder, and further into the ongoing Nakba, into the khurbn ‘aza [destruction of Gaza], we ask: is this a holiday of liberation?
Can this be a holiday of liberation when it rests upon the fantasy of a divine land grant and colonial project whose death toll this winter we already cannot count? When the story it tells (both in its broad arc and specific gestures) is part of what feeds the genocide?
Can this be a holiday of liberation when the mass slaughter of children is (as many progressive Haggadotes depict it) “an escalation of tactics”? Can this be a holiday of liberation when the “mighty hand and outstretched arm” that supposedly bring freedom are the same force that ten times over prevents escape from the narrow place, through plague, environmental devastation, and massacre?
None of these are incidental details that can be reinterpreted away. Removing ten drops does not make a full glass of wine into less of a celebration; it just provides the thinnest of emotional alibis. These genocide warrants, these celebrations of genocide, these acts that enable more genocide, are the core of the story."
yeah we are supposed to be atoning for the death of the firstborn egyptians or something i dont even fucking know what theyre on about
holy fucking shit dude. holy shit. holy shit. jews oppressing greeks. holy shit. what the hell
ok they turn elijahs cup into some thing about how "the prophet of freedom is absent. seems suspicious"
oh my god another faith healer with zero degrees in fields relating to medicine or mental health care!
i consider myself a jewitch but i am so deeply confused by this. moving on
ok more prayers rewritten by people who are not jewish much less rabbis, more shitty poetry
this is what they have instead of "next year in jerusalem":
okay then the list of contributors! im just gonna list details from a few of their bios i found interesting:
Felipe Ventura "builds community networks while being an unschooling parent to twins"
Ollie Emmes Schwartz is a "lover of shtetlcore as embodied de-assimilation practice."
Rebecca S’manga Frank is a "story-doula committed to radical empathy and collective liberation."
Shula Etta Pesach's work is "dedicated to cultural renewal and ancestral healing for white anti-racists."
Simha 'Simi' Toledano is a "hypnotist, spiritual adviser, ritualist, performer, award winning writer and filmmaker, and heart centered activist for collective liberation."
my notes:
unschooling are you fucking serious???? this is how you end up with teenagers who can't do basic math because their parents didn't put them in school. people raised in this practice literally call it abuse and neglect.
shtetlcore is something i enjoy but can we not act like its some radical movement about de-assimilation? shtetls were impoverished communities ravaged by pogroms and anti-jewish laws. my ancestors were surviving, not thriving.
"story-doula" is a concept that has made me like 10x more sure that i want my tubes tied. radical empathy is a fascinating thing to put in a jvp issued pamphlet.
what culture is being renewed for white anti-racists???????? this is a jumble of words
a hypnotist is exactly who i want writing my Haggadah. awesome. if only i could just hear the word annihilation and shut down after reading this shit (niche reference to my favorite book sorry lolz)
and now, as a conclusion, i want to share the bio in this booklet that i think is the most important to understanding how this piece of garbage propaganda could have been made. this is an organization that was featured prominently in this document.
"Rooted in this World Network: We are an intergenerational group of rad/left, anti-zionist, (mostly) queer, secular jewish educators, activists, cultural workers, and artists, primarily based in North America, but also beyond. Some of us use “secular” and/or “cultural” to define ourselves (while others do not), but all of us are interested in building Jewish community that de-centers rabbinic, priestly, and prayer-focused Jewishness. We share resources and co-create meaningful ways of being practicing secular Jews (including internal education around secular histories and futures, workshops with/for the broader Jewish left, shared rituals and art-making)."
so, to be clear, this is a prayer book for a jewish religious holiday that was written by secular jews (and non jews) who intend to remove central parts of judaism from it. while not being religious. i think that really sums up what JVP is. it is not a jewish organization. it is an organization that puts politics over ancestral traditions, that parades as being jewish despite wanting to destroy and erase vital parts of jewish tradition, culture, language, spirituality, history, and identity. it props up tokenized jews who do not have connection to the things they speak on.
this is not a haggadah. it is some sort of goofy ass propaganda zine. it has nearly nothing to do with the actual story of passover. the "jewish leaders" involved are almost all people who got certifications from non-jewish orgs or in ways that jewish law does not recognize. this is ridiculous savior-complex bullshit that exists to steal elements of jewish culture and throw the rest out. fuck jvp