Re:Big Tech Monopolies Endanger American Security
by bpodgursky on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:16AM
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This number is nonsense. You can legitimately argue against the ethics of drone warfare (and likely win) without quoting completely false numbers.
Here's the wiki cohort estimate [1]. You can argue that it's off by multiples if you really want, but it's still not even in the same order of magnitude as your fake estimate:
> Taken together, independent estimates from the non-governmental organizations New America and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest that civilians made up between 7.27% to 15.47% of deaths in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia from 2009–2016, with a broadly similar rate from 2017–2019.[6] Civilian casualties as a percentage of overall deaths were highest in Yemen and lowest in Somalia.[6]
Here's the wiki cohort estimate [1]. You can argue that it's off by multiples if you really want, but it's still not even in the same order of magnitude as your fake estimate:
> Taken together, independent estimates from the non-governmental organizations New America and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest that civilians made up between 7.27% to 15.47% of deaths in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia from 2009–2016, with a broadly similar rate from 2017–2019.[6] Civilian casualties as a percentage of overall deaths were highest in Yemen and lowest in Somalia.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...