Al-Manar is Hezbollah's Lebanese satellite television station. The 2010 opening stated plainly: Al-Manar was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, and banned by the United States in December 2004. Today's opening carries no mention of that designation, though terror survives 30 times elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today does not learn that the United States government designated Al-Manar a terrorist entity.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Al-Manar ( ; The Beacon ) is a Lebanese satellite television station registered as Lebanese Media Group Company , broadcasting from Beirut , Lebanon . It has an offering a "rich menu" of high production news, commentary, and entertainment. The self-proclaimed "Station of the Resistance" ( qanat al-muqawama ), in its struggle against the Zionist enemy," i.e. the state of Israel , and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the Arab world . , It is said to have an affiliation with the political party Hezbollah , which was said to have launched the network in 1991 allegedly with the help of Iranian funds, by 2004, Al Manar was estimated to hold 10-15 million viewers daily worldwide. Critics argue al-Manar's agenda is strongly influenced by Iran by virtue of the "significant portion" of Hizbollah's budget shortfall that is covered by Iran, via some of the "$100 and $200 million a year" Iran provides to Hezbollah itself. Al-Manar officials strongly deny this, saying they are subsidized by the Hezbollah party and donations from other Muslims , not by Iran.1Al-Manar was designated as a " Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity", and banned by the United States in December 2004. It has also been banned by France , Spain and Germany , and has run into some service and license problems abroad , making it unavailable in the Netherlands , South America , Canada and Australia while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.2National Review Online . 22 December 2004 .3Designates Al-Manar as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] Entity" .4Department of the Treasury . : URL–wikilink conflict ( help ) "France pulls plug on Arab network" . Commission of the European Communities Commission document SEC(2006) 160 Accessed July 31, 2006 "Germany bans Hezbollah television station Al-Manar" .5
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The opening as it stood in 2005
Both Hezbollah and Al-Manar are listed as terrorist organization by the United States State Department .
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The opening as it stood in 2015 8 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Al-Manar was designated as a " Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity," and banned by the United States on 17 December 2004. It has also been banned by France , Spain and Germany , and has run into some service and license problems outside Lebanon, making it unavailable in the Netherlands , Canada and Australia while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Lebanese television station affiliated with Hezbollah For the former Egyptian Islamic magazine, see Al-Manar (magazine) .The channel was launched on June 4, 1991. Al-Manar was designated as a “ Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity", and banned by the United States on 17 December 2004. It has also been banned by France , Spain , and Germany , and has run into some service and license problems outside Lebanon, making it unavailable in the Netherlands , Canada , and Australia , while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Lebanese television station affiliated with Hezbollah For the former Egyptian Islamic magazine, see Al-Manar (magazine) . The channel was launched on 4 June 1991 and it is a member of the Arab States Broadcasting Union . Al-Manar was designated as a “ Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity", and banned by the United States on 17 December 2004. On 22 June 2021, the official Al-Manar website domain as well as dozens of other Arab news network domains related to Iran, Lebanon and Syria were shut down by the U.S. government for spreading disinformation and in cooperation with the U.S. government, Al-Manar is banned from multiple U.S based media platforms which include YouTube , Twitter , Instagram , Reddit etc. It has also been banned by France Spain , and Germany , and has run into some service and license problems outside Lebanon, making it unavailable in the Netherlands , Canada , and Australia , while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.
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The opening as it stood in 2025 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Lebanese television station affiliated with Hezbollah For the former Egyptian Islamic magazine, see Al-Manar (magazine) . The Lighthouse ' ' ) is a Lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the Islamist political party and paramilitary group Hezbollah , broadcasting from Beirut , Lebanon.The channel was launched on 4 June 1991 as a terrestrial channel and in 2000 as a satellite channel. It is a member of the Arab States Broadcasting Union . The station reaches around 50 million people.The station is considered one of Hezbollah's most important global propaganda tools, with the Danish Institute for International Studies describing it as "the very centrepiece of the entire [Hezbollah] media apparatus".It is banned in the United States, France, Spain, and Germany, and has run into some service and license problems outside Lebanon, making it unavailable in the Netherlands , Canada , and Australia .Alma Research and Education Center .
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Today
“terror” appeared 3 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 30. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2005, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
tv station of the controversial lebanese organization hezbollah
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lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the lebanese shia islamist political party and para
Where the word went
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“terror” was in the opening on October 6, 2023. Today 16 remain, 75% of the way down the article.
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