Dubai's influencers have a new rule: Don't mention the war (www.abc.net.au)
from Beep@lemmus.org to world@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 10:21
https://lemmus.org/post/20760093

As missiles and drones began lighting up the sky over Dubai, many of the city’s social media personalities became citizen journalists.

Regular programming about abs, real estate and cryptocurrency was replaced with frantic updates on Iran’s latest attacks.

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Triumph@fedia.io on 11 Mar 10:51 next collapse

Terrible headline. This is about online personalities in UAE probably being censored and instructed to produce propaganda content in place of citizen journalist war reporting.

Beep@lemmus.org on 11 Mar 11:22 collapse

The original fetched headline mentioned the word “cringe” but I edited for better clarity and to match the current article headline.

Triumph@fedia.io on 11 Mar 11:50 collapse

Oh I wasn't blaming you for it. Seems the article site decided it was a shitty headline, too.

Chais@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 11:22 next collapse

There’s no war in Ba Sing Se.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz on 11 Mar 11:28 next collapse

I get the AtLA reference but what does the change to “We” mean?

Chais@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 11:40 collapse

It means I got autocowrecked.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz on 11 Mar 12:21 collapse

Happens to the best of us. TY

CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 12:22 next collapse

Basil Fawlty had a similar rule.

dumbass@piefed.social on 11 Mar 12:25 next collapse

Pretty sure that’s the same rule in Germany.

belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Mar 14:13 collapse

You can go on national television and argue against the war but k

(This post is not to excuse the dog shit behaviour against anti-genocide protestors)

Mwa@thelemmy.club on 11 Mar 12:32 next collapse

Literally 1984

Hadriscus@jlai.lu on 11 Mar 16:52 collapse

Homosexuality is punishable by death. (…)
The UAE is strict but safe.

uhhhh hello

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org on 11 Mar 19:07 collapse

Sure, they might ignore basic human rights and press freedom, but think about the low taxes there! /s