It isn't a lie as such, the UN has an official statement [0] saying that 1,348 people died. It is just an honest and reasonable misinterpretation.

But a lot more civilians than that were killed.

[0] https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/06/high-commissione...

That’s not a reasonable reading of that statement.

> To date, OHCHR has verified 1,348 individual civilian deaths directly in hostilities in Mariupol, including 70 children. These deaths were caused by air strikes, tank and artillery shelling and small arms and light weapons during street fighting. The actual death toll of hostilities on civilians is likely thousands higher.

The other comments by the same poster in this thread do not lead to the “honest” conclusion.

If the UN says "To date, OHCHR has verified 1,348 individual civilian deaths directly in hostilities in Mariupol" and then some dude says "Official UN statement is 1300 death in Maripol" that is an honest reading.

It isn't an accurate reading, but if you spend any time at all on the internet you will detect that honest people are often quite inaccurate. And wrong even while being able to back their opinions up with evidence. But it still isn't fair to imply that they are liar, lying or spreading lies. They are just wrong. Happens to literally all of us.

Even if hypothetically he was a habitual liar in every other comment he ever made on HN, this is not a showcase of lying.

If I tell you I went to a McDonalds potato warehouse, and that I counted twenty potatoes, but "there's a lot left to count", it would not be a reasonable summary of my statement to say that "the warehouse contains twenty potatoes".

But you would have the warped view of reality necessary to operate as a UN official, so you'd have something going for you :)

Doesn't affect holoduke though, and he could still honestly quote you as having viewed 20 potatoes.