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It’s rich seeing Hanania complaining about lies when he was just recently dismissing Daryl Cooper that Christian’s were being targeted in Syria, when it’s pretty well established that this is indeed happening
Were they? There’s good evidence for a few dozen Christians being murdered in the context of widespread massacres of religious minorities, but the vast majority of the victims were Alawites(a pseudo-Islamic gnostic cult), and the heads of the Syrian churches seemed to think that churches were safe havens even during the worst of the killing.
The distinction between "there was a massacre of Christians and Alawites" and "there was a massacre of Alawites in which a small number of Christians were collateral damage" is precisely the sort of question a functioning MSM (which we mostly don't have) would be able to answer but the developing alternatives do not - because the MSM was able to put a known-trustworthy journalist in the field and do actual shoe-leather journalism. Social media amplifies the kinds of anecdote that the algorithm expects to go viral in a way which means you have no idea of the relative frequency of different events, even when this is immediately obvious to someone on the ground.
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