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2. Your daily reminder to think hard about sourcing and bias – particularly when it comes to alarmist stories about Iranians in Syria, which seem to make people forget to evaluate sources critically.
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1. This Jerusalem Post article (https://www.jpost.com//Middle-East/Report-Syrian-regime-grants-citizenship-to-Iranians-Hezbollah-fighters-572781 …) is sourced to a MEMRI report (https://www.memri.org/reports/syrian-regime-granting-citizenship-to-iranians-hizbullah-operatives …), which – as the MEMRI report notes, but the JPost article fails to – is just a roundup of stories from Syrian and regional anti-Damascus websites.https://twitter.com/sheydemann/status/1067567218249134080 …
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really irresponsible reporting by
@Jerusalem_Post, which is now being cited by irresponsible Syrian opposition outlets, further feeding the loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNIGeVRCJsc … Plenty of real regime abuses to cover. No need to make up new ones. -
"Syrian president has issued [Syrian] identity cards to some two million Iranians and operatives of militias belonging to the Iranian IRGC Qods Force, and to their families, as well to Hizbullah operatives". Such nonsense without any word of reservation.
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The biggest problem is "pundits" sharing links to stories citing the JPost story as argument or puzzle peace for their "analysis"
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