• ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve heard reports from a person who is part of the Palestinian diaspora who took a genetic test and was unaware that the company they did it with was Israeli. They got back results stating that they were approximately 50% in a broad Arab category.

      They redid their genetic test with a non-Israeli company and got a much more accurate Levantine result.

      Make of that whatever you will. Maybe there’s differences in how they analyse the data but I would be wholly unsurprised if an Israeli genetic testing company was making a concerted effort to erase Palestinian identity by fudging results to skew the interpretation.

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        3 months ago

        Would be hilarious if they weren’t told what kind of video the sponsor section would be in. Doubt any of Hakim’s viewers will click on that.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      for me, it’s giving the same vibes as the military running ads on hasan’s twitch stream. that’s just a donation at that point, you don’t really have to worry about hakim’s audience being susceptible to this i think.

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      3 months ago

      He didn’t know it was an Israeli company and apologized in the comments

      @YaBoiHakim 1 hour ago

      I had no idea, I’ll cancel the planned integrations. The contact person that gets these ad integrations knows I don’t accept Israeli sponsors, so I assumed they checked. I’ll be sure to talk to them too, thanks for letting me know!