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Brown Moses Blog
Personal blog · brown-moses.blogspot.co.ukpoliticshistory
Brown Moses Blog is a personal blog at brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk about politics and history. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on the reliability of amateur photo and video from the Syrian Civil War, and on how Facebook is destroying history of that conflict. Commenters cite them as context.
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What Hacker News says?
Without casting any aspersions on the veracity of the photo, being talked about, it has to be said that there was plenty of amateur footage making the rounds in the early stages of the conflict, right about the time the UK parliament put the commitment of British forces in a potential military involvement, to vote. The integrity of photos and video evidence (filmed mostly by amateurs in the early stages of the milit…
Comment linking /2013/09/videos-claim-to-show-jabhat-al-nusra.html
on “There will be blood - Photo Analysis”Submitted Paypal Effectively Destroys My Indiegogo Fundraising Campaign For The Blog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionContext: "How Facebook is destroying history in the context of the Syrian Civil War" http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/how-facebook-is-de... Alghayma is free and open-source software: https://github.com/Alghayma/Alghayma
Comment linking /2014/02/how-facebook-is-destroying-history.html
on “ShowHN: Alghayma ~ Tool to backup Facebook pages”Submitted The Process Of Video Verification - Rabaa, Egypt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Syria's Barrel Bomb Technology as a story · 1 points
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