How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Military Prison in Syria

Re:How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Mi... by salimmadjd on Sunday February 26, 2017 @06:13PM (#13740570)

Amnesty Internation was duped into false reporting that got us into the first Iraq war. Amnesty later retraced their 84 page report[0].

How is it possible an organization that documents human rights could mislead the world? Any government PR firm, backed by CIA or MI6 can create a list of "witnesses" and have them testify to AI. My point is, just because AI is documenting it, it doesn't mean it's legit. Especially around Syria since there is a lot of documented story fabrication.

[0] https://www.democracynow.org/2003/12/2/a_debate_on_one_of_th...

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Re:How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Mi... by grw_ on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:48PM (#13741021)

I think that's a reasonable concern to have. My question was regarding the parent comment's implication that AI themselves are deciding not to publish information on abuses in other areas. The user seems to feel that these things have not been publicised, when in fact there are ongoing awareness campaigns on all of the countries listed.

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Re:How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Mi... by Sacho on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:28AM (#13743227)

I think a more charitable interpretation of their point was that AI's information, which is already suspect, is cherry-picked when presented to the US audience(referencing the article in the thread, and many others by US newspapers) to form the narrative that Assad must be ousted.

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