User talk:Done7th

Bias found in following articlte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_Alinejad
There appears to be significant bias in this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_Alinejad). It appears to be a point of view issue, and is emphasised through language used. I've provided 4 examples from the article and a brief explanation of the bias I think I'm seeing:

1. Here's a pretty clear example of bias from the article. It basically reads as:in her book she claims women are raised to have restricted lives in Iran, but this cannot possibly be the case because..... um.... they have female vice presidents and stuff. "she released a book in 2018 called The Wind in my Hair that deals with her experiences growing up in Iran, where she claims girls "are raised to keep their heads low, to be unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek".[9] However, Iran has already had several Vice Presidents and also, unlike many Western countries, also has had females become the heads of entire major airlines, for example."

2. "advocating for harsher sanctions and even more unjustified collective punishment on the Iranian people even during the COVID-19 pandemic." The author is showing their own opinion here describing the collective punishment as unjustified.

3. "Alinejad, as a U.S. government sponsored agent, focuses on criticism of Iranian authorities as part of the U.S. foreign policy agenda" I feel this statement is misleading, even from a precursory search I can see this woman has been a human rights activist fighting for women's rights for many years, her activist aims have not changed. She was kicked out of Iran for the same rights she continues to fight for now. Again, it's misleading phrasing: it makes it seem she just started this activism when she started working for the US government, which does not appear to be the case.

4. "and has won several awards, including a human rights award from UN Watch's 2015 Geneva Summit for Human Rights, the Omid Journalism Award from the Mehdi Semsar Foundation, and a "Highly Commended" AIB Media Excellence Award.[7] However, as journalists reported in March 2020, these awards appear largely parts of a machine of self-promotion by the U.S. government and foreign policy actors.[2]" This part of the article claims journalists have outed the above awards as cogs in a machine of propaganda, but the cited article does not mention any of these awards, so no basis for this claim. It may well be true, but needs a better source and citation.

Done7th (talk) 20:53, 26 July 2020 (UTC)