cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19354828
God I wonder why Palestinians are so upset. Oh wait:
Last October, Palestinian grandmother Ayesha Shtayyeh says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years.
Did you editorialise the headline?
Extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land
No, I used auto fill. There seems to be different headline on the main page, different headline when you actually click on the article and different when you auto populate which I assume is the original one. It looks like it has been changed multiple times.
Headlines are sampled randomly for the first few hours of an article going live to measure exposure. The headline that gets the most clicks wins.
There are a lot of sites that do this.
It causes headaches when it comes to social. Usually the original headline is preserved in the url, but sometimes they’ll use a unique id and then include the editorialized headline option so they can track which headline you clicked on.
Also editorial decisions on wording based on pushback, legal threats, etc.
It’s not the wilderness, why are they called settlers? English already has a word for what they are doing, even multiple: invaders, occupiers, tresspasers…
settlers also has other connotations which is probably why is was chosen.
to settle something = agree
to settle down = calm and mature
to settle for something = compromise
to settle a dispute = legal and fair
None of which is remotely close to what these people are doing when they steal.
I have literally no sympathy for these settlers. I hope they have a brutal, agonizing, slow, and humiliating death.
