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umarniz | 3 years ago

I love the execution of this!

Not comparing but I did a similar project 8 years ago at the peak of Israel / Palestine conflict to compare tweets from Palestine vs tweets from Israel.

Incredible difference when you see them side by side.

It would be great if someone would execute such an idea for more areas of conflict to bring awareness.

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Aeolun|3 years ago

I did this a few years ago for front-page news from different areas of the world. Was very interesting to see the contrasts.

Edit, thanks internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180118162502/https://98clicks....

dotancohen|3 years ago

As someone for whom the conflict affect my childrens' wellbeing, and having good friends on both sides of the conflict, I would love if you would share your findings. If you prefer private conversation my Gmail username is the same as my HN username.

  > It would be great if someone would execute such an idea for more areas of conflict to bring awareness.

If you have any ideas, I can help code it or host it.

vmception|3 years ago

Whenever there is a flare up over there, it dominates US news sources, and I’ve been using proxies and VPNs since the 2000s to get another set of articles from other mostly Western countries

Its been different