<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>&amp;gt; An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views.&lt;p&gt;Treading a fine line here between Bayesian priors and stereotypes, but the worldwide Muslim&amp;#x2F;Jewish population split is something like 112:1. Obviously that&amp;#x27;s not going to be the same proportion on a given media-service, but it should still inform our expectations of what is the &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; state before theorizing about platform algorithm-tweaking or propaganda-campaigns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sertbdfgbnfgsd</author><text>&amp;gt; Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views.&lt;p&gt;That platforms prioritize one over the other is just one possible explanation. An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views. And it&amp;#x27;s dishonest to present one explanation and omit the other.&lt;p&gt;Nothing inflames people like injustice.</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1732792434961031436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;173279243496103143...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&amp;#x2F;50, so if there&amp;#x27;s something going on online, it&amp;#x27;s not in favor of Israel.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sabarn01</author><text>There is an ocean of injustice in the world and this one issue causes more anger than many that are equally abhorrent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sertbdfgbnfgsd</author><text>&amp;gt; Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views.&lt;p&gt;That platforms prioritize one over the other is just one possible explanation. An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views. And it&amp;#x27;s dishonest to present one explanation and omit the other.&lt;p&gt;Nothing inflames people like injustice.</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1721561226151612602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1732792434961031436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;committeeonccp&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;173279243496103143...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;antgoldbloom&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1730255552738201854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&amp;#x2F;50, so if there&amp;#x27;s something going on online, it&amp;#x27;s not in favor of Israel.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story>