New Caledonia riots: France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok
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Three indigenous Kanak and a police official have been killed in the violence that broke out after an electoral reform bill was adopted by lawmakers in Paris.
  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    7 months ago

    Im gonna keep adding this, because it keeps getting posted like this.

    France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok in New Caledonia amid deadly riots

    This is the actual headline. Can you not cut off part of the headline in a way that makes it misleading?

    Yes this is still a fucked up situation, but the modified headline makes it seem like all of France is in a state of emergency and banned TikTok nationwide.

    • Five@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      15·
      7 months ago

      The title is auto-populated from the site’s meta information. The meta title is usually the same as the article title. In this case it’s not:

      <meta property="og:title" content="New Caledonia riots: France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok"/>

      There’s no conspiracy to report deceptive headlines; it’s probably just an alternate title in the website code that wasn’t changed with the other content after the article was already in print.

      Also, where else has this been posted? I don’t see any cross-posts.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        7 months ago

        Not saying its a conspiracy but its confusing either way. There were like 5 of these titles in the past 24h and at least 20+ posts about the topic in general.

  • Hugucinogens
    9·
    7 months ago

    Tl;dr:

    France tries to pass an extremely unpopular reform on its colonized island on the other side of the world, allowing french citizens to vote after 10 years of staying on the island, that just so happens to be the world’s 3rd largest nickel exporter.

    Locals, already fucked by years of colonialism and being economically disadvantaged, protested, and in the escalating violence, were suppressed by armed police, that killed 3 young locals. One policeman dies, days later in the hospital from a wound.

    France locks down the airport and port with military, applies 12 days lockdown to the already curfew’d capital, and stations another 500 police men on top of the 1800, making for almost 10% of the population now, being french police.

    Tiktok is banned, because it was said to be the main way protesters organised.

    Their politicians claim no colonialism is happening.

    This article sensationalises the violence of the protesters, and dryily describes that of the French state.

    It is also ordered such that the heavier crimes against the people of the island, are placed after: a vapid introduction that “takes no sides”, one mandatory extra click to “load the rest of the article”, and a bunch of ads.