Edited footage of protesters chanting "gas the Jews" at the rally outside the Sydney Opera House in October was shared on social media, but NSW Police said an extensive investigation found no evidence of it happening.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Political propaganda/lies has been a war tactic for as long as wars have existed and pretty much everyone does it.
Our news organisations are failing us by reporting on things that they haven't been able to verify. I can forgive regular people spreading unreliable info on social media... but journalists should be held to a higher standard than that.
I heard an expert talking about it and they said analysis of the sound showed some kind of audio loop indicating copy-paste (I didn’t understand the technicalities) which indicated the audio was manipulated.
Police do not say it was edited. That is the the journalist adding unnecessary speculation.
What is the point? To say there was no chant, it was edited, but if there was a chant it was more likely "kiss the jews" or "where's the juice" (protesting is thirsty work).
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