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This. But I semi agree w/OP. The OP of lemmy.ml should have used “[] & ¹” to cite why the “Palestine Authority” is a mercenary front for the IDF.
It's really not hard to denote you changed the title to remove the propaganda, in the body.
I personal do it all the time.
Definitely, I agree with that. I'm also not supportive of changing article titles, at least when it comes to politics, additional context should be provided in the post or comments as needed.
It looks like that rule doesn't apply to that .ml community, which I personally don't agree with. I think it's more transparent to show how it's reported and point out, with sources, if anything is being reported disingenuously
It honestly depends how egregious the article’s headline is. And in lemmy, your title can & should be different than MSM's headlines. But the confusion was extremely wild even for MLists.
But 100% agreed with the context assertion. People should contextualize as much as possible to audiences, even to veterans.