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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/05/2025

We're drip-feeding key findings ahead of our full report. First up: how often do outlets use the phrase "according to Hamas-run" when reporting on Israeli massacres in Gaza? We analysed 330 Israeli attacks covered by the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, and The Guardian - ensuring fair comparisons.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 17/04/2025

How the BBC frames illegal occupation depending on who the occupier is: When 🇷🇺 does it: it’s home seizure and a occupation. When 🇮🇱 does it: it’s framed as settler optimism and political strategy

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 08/04/2025

🚀 NewsCord Browser Companion V2 Coming Soon! (see demo) The first thing we ever built @newscord_org was a Chrome extension. It made sense - people are reading across different news sites, so why not offer instant context with a click?

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 06/04/2025

How the Washington Post covers war crimes differently based on who is committing them:

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 06/04/2025

Accountable Media's complaint template: accountable-media.com?title=the_gu... Their technology makes it quick and simple to email newsrooms, and they use a variety of techniques to maximise the likelihood of getting a response

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 06/04/2025

This framing is replicated across many mainstream outlets such as: The Independent BBC Associated Press Washington Post NPR (horrific hearsay framing despite video evidence) Complain to The Guardian using the link below 👇🏼 (takes one minute)

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 06/04/2025

Take action via @Accmedia48, where you can complain in under a minute. The Guardian must correct course and report without the compromised agenda of casting doubt when there is none. Israel deliberately massacred 15 ambulance crew members. It's as simple as that.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

Israeli 'justification' that "vehicles were approaching suspiciously without headlights or emergency signals" has been proven to be a lie. But the headlines are still passive. None of these headlines are directly stating that Israel shot and killed the ambulance crew.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

Using data that shows indiscriminate killing, then masking it with vague language, is deeply misleading

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

The figure comes from Gaza’s Health Ministry, which reports that most of the Palestinians killed by Israel were women and children. Yet the headline downplays this by framing it as a “war with Hamas,” suggesting a battle between equals rather than mass civilian slaughter

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

When reporting on the the very conservative Health Ministry figure of 50,000 Palestinians killed by Israel (past 18 months): - "people killed" who? Israelis too? - Who killed them? - "conflict" - "war with Hamas"

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

When it's an Israeli massacre: - Israeli military justification is given - Use of the word "allegedly" - "Palestinian health officials say"

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 05/04/2025

How the media covers war crimes differently based on who is committing them 🧵 WaPo Russian massacre: reported with active language, attacker named, death toll given with no attribution. WaPo Israeli massacre: "officials say", dozens killed "as Israel expands..."

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 02/04/2025

NewsCord 🤝 Accountable Media Powerful pipeline: - People see egregious coverage on the NewsCord app - Accountable Media sets up campaign - We notify everyone - Send complaint to outlet in 10 seconds - Demand accountability This notification was just sent out to thousands of our users.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

We've seen Western media unite on this narrative stronger than ever before. Outlets covering the real purpose of the protests are few and far between. Our app helps sift through and find comparisons to reveal the gaps. Consume news differently with our app! We hope this thread was informative ❤️

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

It's worth including this excerpt from a Sky News article. Where Alistair Bunkali from Sky does say that these protests are not "simply anti-Hamas".

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

Here, our app captures a stark contrast in narrative between mainstream outlet CNN and alternative outlet @commondreams.org CNN causally relays "voluntary emigration plan" but Common Dreams calls it what it is: ethnic cleansing

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

Well, here's on of his earlier tweets, where he peddles Israel propaganda that Hossam Shabat, the journalist Israel assassinated, was a Hamas sniper. This is despite @rsf.org conducting an investigation and concluding that the evidence provided by Israel to suggest that Hossam...cont.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

This is the primary source used by the BBC on their Instagram post. We're not going to speculate on the legitimacy of the anti-Hamas chants. That's not the point of this thread.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

This video published by Ariel Oseran on X shows the person filming the footage starting an anti-Hamas chant, "Hamas out".

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

Political skew is meaningless when it comes to how the genocide has been covered. Across the board, the protests have been generalised as "anti-Hamas".

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

This narrative also fuels Netanyahu’s claim that “the plan is working,” emboldening Israel to justify the illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza they openly advocate.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

Framing these protests as “anti-Hamas” based on slogans from a minority whitewashes the past 17 months, rewrites history, and absolves Israel of blame. It manufactures the reaction: “See? Even they think it’s Hamas’ fault.” This paves the way for Israel’s next phase of genocide: ethnic cleansing.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 28/03/2025

🧵 Let’s talk about the Beit Lahia protests. Western media’s attempt to label them “anti-Hamas” is deeply misleading - and here’s why: The majority of placards and chants are demanding an end to the genocide. Palestinians are pleading for basic rights, food, water, and the right to live.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 25/03/2025

Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian Oscar winner, is violently attacked by Israeli settlers then arrested by the Israel army whilst being treated in an ambulance. This is Politico's headline.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 24/03/2025

Israel killed 5 patients and medics when they bombed Nasser Hospital. The BBC, LBC, NPR, ABC (🇦🇺), and New York Post do not mention the medics and patients. This is what manufacturing consent looks like.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

Expanding on the Al Jazeera Net (AJ Arabic translated in our app) article; they are citing this excerpt from a CNN article. Should they be commended for this investigation? They buried it under 912 words, under a completely unrelated headline.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

Only once you turn to alternative sources do you see how direct the news could be. For example, these headlines remove the doubt, and make it clear that Israel killed the UN aid workers (now 5 killed by Israel).

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

Why has the 'ceasefire'* been shattered? Western media has completely buried the fact that Israel betrayed the initial deal. Screenshot from The Guardian. *Calling it a ceasefire is inaccurate as Israel violated it constantly by blocking aid and killing 120+ Palestinians in Gaza in that duration.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

Deaths are incidental "X people killed as Israel strikes" not "Israel has killed X people" Secondly: Can we trust the numbers? Western media takes advantage of Hamas' reputation in the West - everytime.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

The media has made 13x that scale acceptable for Palestinian children. Here's how. Firstly, is it actually Israel that is behind these massacres? Despite the Israeli PM and cabinet members openly stating their genocidal ambitions, Western media subtly avoids attribution:

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 20/03/2025

Israel has killed 200 children in 3 days. It's hard to imagine the scale of this and numbers are just numbers. But remember in 2022 when the whole world came to a halt when Russia invaded Ukraine? At the peak of the war, Russia was killing 15 children every 3 days (March 2022). 🧵

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 18/03/2025

Despite horrific images of children killed and injured by Israel’s renewed mass bombardment, here’s how CNN, Associated Press and Reuters are covering it:

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 17/03/2025

It's never been clearer how compromised and unusable Western media is. They, like their Israeli allies, will justify any atrocity.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 16/03/2025

Across the board, mainstream outlets are minimizing the US-UK bombardment of Yemen which killed 19 civilians. They don't mention death toll in headlines. They minimize attacks to "on Houthis" or "targets"

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 15/03/2025

Israel killed 9 Palestinians in Beit Lahia, Gaza, including journalists and charity workers. The Associated Press does cover it, but buries it under a completely unrelated headline.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 15/03/2025

The first post cites Balfour for a reason: The Balfour Declaration promised Israel in historic Palestine but ignored the ethnic cleansing needed to make it happen. Once again, major outlets are burying this "elephant in the room."

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 15/03/2025

Why did the world erupt over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but stay silent on Palestine’s ethnic cleansing? The media played a key role - using active language, uniting to convey Ukraine’s suffering, and humanizing its people. Meanwhile, Palestinian suffering is buried - "postwar plan".

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 15/03/2025

Using soft terms like "resettling", "moving", "uprooted" instead of "ethnic cleansing" and "forcibly displacing" makes the idea of ethnic cleansing palatable and approachable to the layperson. It is a powerful normalisation technique.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 15/03/2025

The U.S. openly pushing forcible displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians echoes the pre-Balfour era, when colonial powers decided the fate of Indigenous people without regard for their rights or the crime of ethnic cleansing. + major outlets like the AP are crucial 🧵

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

Eerily similar headline to that used by Jerusalem Poet. And no, it's not an AP repost/Newswire. Shows you who the mainstream has sided with. Jerusalem Post is staunchly pro-Israeli and arguably leads the pack when it comes to dehumanising Palestinians.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

If you want to immediately see the hidden agendas at play and stay ahead, download our app!

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

Alternative outlets give you a completely different perspective, where evidence backed findings are covered in more detail - the detail it deserves

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

What's the overall effect of this type of coverage? How does the layperson, who doesn't consume news beyond the mainstream interpret this news? Well, the key takeaways from mainstream reporting is eerily similar to Israeli media: UN report published, but Israel says it's biased

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

Sky News, exactly like NYT and the BBC, uses the same tactic of immediately softening the impact of the damning evidence

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

Side by side comparisons of NYT to non-Western sources expose the tactic instantly: Western media pairs every criticism of Israel with immediate official rebuttals regardless of evidence strength.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 14/03/2025

Western media deliberately minimized UN findings of genocidal acts by Israel in Gaza, brazenly equating Israel's blanket denials with mountains of damning evidence. This calculated false equivalency serves only to obscure the horrific truth on the ground.

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NewsCord @newscord.org · 13/03/2025

We'll be talking about media's complicity in genocide and how NewsCord aims to tackle it with a great panel including Accountable Media and Hamza from @declassifieduk.org Tickets are free and hosted by West Norwood For Palestine. Would love to see you all there! Link below 👇🏼

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