[mapt]

Why was this flagged? Automatically / without review? This is a novel tech story, albeit one without a lot of technical detail.

https://www.earshot.ngo/what-we-do/audio-ballistics

https://forensic-architecture.org/

https://content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/uploads...

> Earshot used echolocation to analyze the audio on the recordings in order to arrive at precise estimates of the shooters’ locations. Echolocation is the process of locating the source of a sound based on an analysis of the sound’s echoes and the environment in which the sound travels. The Israeli military destroyed and cleared so many buildings in the Tel Al-Sultan area where the ambush of the aid workers took place that very few structures remained. This destruction actually strengthened Earshot’s ability to determine the positions and movements of Israeli soldiers, based on identifying the surfaces responsible for clearly distinguishable gunshot echoes. Rather than having multiple buildings reflecting the sound waves, there were only a few standing walls and the emergency vehicles themselves.

> “Earshot forensically analyzed over 900 gunshots fired at aid workers. It took one whole year of careful listening to reconstruct an auditory picture of what happened that dark night,” Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the director of Earshot, told Drop Site.

I'm not sure how much this was actually necessary to the eventual verdict if this is ever adjudicated, though, if "hiding the evidence" is a factor:

> Following the ambush, Israeli forces crushed all eight vehicles using heavy machinery and attempted to bury them under the sand.

> The body of Anwar al-Attar was found near the ambush site on March 27, and the bodies of the other 14 aid workers, all wearing identifying uniforms or volunteer vests of their respective organizations, were found in a mass grave near the site on March 30.

But the understanding that they were advanced upon in a walking wave of fire, and then the survivors were executed one by one at close range, may help.

[lma21]

Any posts linked to the IDF committing crimes are automatically flagged on this site (and others). Many bots are at play here.

[austin-cheney]

Its not automatic due to bot activity. It is from people actively suppressing stories that don't want other people to see.

This is discernible by watching how long it takes stories like these to reach a flagged state on the new submissions page. It is further evident by watching which comments within those submissions get flagged based upon their upvotes and visibility.

[dang]

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flags%20off%20turn%20by%3Adang...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141443

[JumpCrisscross]

I didn’t flag. But the top comments are nothing to do with the tech, and aren’t dissimilar from any Gaza War commentary online.