By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigationsApril 30, 2024
In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Dem
Look at OP’s history; their account is 2 weeks old, and they’re clearly agenda-posting with an anti-US, anti-EU, and anti-Ukraine stance.
This article is just something packaged by a writer who works for a low-credibility source (The Grayzone) published by a site that’s more credible (why they’d risk their credibility publishing this is beyond me)
In Russian-aligned countries, there is a tactic where they cultivate news sources with balanced, good reporting, then they use them to disseminate disinformation at critical moments. I’m not saying this is it, but I’ve seen this happen before with different outlets.
I’m not just saying accounts, I’m saying entire news outlets. A while ago in Hungary, the government bought a popular independent news outlet. They still post articles criticising the government, basically nothing changed in alignment, the quality went down though.
But when there is a hot topic issue that could actually hurt the govt, or if there is an election, then key hit pieces are taken and posted without edits and changes from the government propaganda media, even if they are blatantly false.
Ah, gotcha. I guess I understood that as people who cherry pick things from otherwise credible sources to push a specific agenda.
Going to have to start keeping a closer eye out for mergers / purchases of media outlets. MBFC is a good check, but they grade over time. If an outlet gets purchased and changes direction, it can be a good while before their MBFC rating is updated.
Just click on the author’s byline and look at their past "investigations, " it tells you all you need to know. But this article is filled with such endless BS it would take ages to unpack it all. I’ll just post one thing from the beginning of the article.
During this period, Ukraine has not become an independent self-sustaining democracy, but a client state heavily dependent on European and U.S. support, which has not protected it from the ravages of war.
From the ravages of war, wow, what country invaded and annexed them multiple times and is ravaging them? Not worth mentioning I guess. The fighting is all the US and EU’s fault for helping Ukraine to defend itself! If Ukraine had just rolled over everytime Russia wanted to lop off sections of their country or even take the whole thing plus some neighboring countries to boot, then everything would be peaceful! It goes on from there like that. Impressive mental gymnastics throughout, and clearly trying to push an established viewpoint of the author rather than inform, really more of a bad opinion piece than an “investigation.”
Is the writer of the article right of center? Aaron Maté works for the Grayzone, which according to Wikipedia is a far left-wing news website and blog. His employment history does not suggest any strong right leaning.
A lot of websites will do a bunch of small factual articles to keep rating up, but all the big headlines are fucking terrible.
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Right of center but hasn’t failed a fact check in a bit. Assuming we trust media bias.
Look at OP’s history; their account is 2 weeks old, and they’re clearly agenda-posting with an anti-US, anti-EU, and anti-Ukraine stance.
This article is just something packaged by a writer who works for a low-credibility source (The Grayzone) published by a site that’s more credible (why they’d risk their credibility publishing this is beyond me)
In Russian-aligned countries, there is a tactic where they cultivate news sources with balanced, good reporting, then they use them to disseminate disinformation at critical moments. I’m not saying this is it, but I’ve seen this happen before with different outlets.
I’ve seen that on Lemmy quite a bit, actually. Have banned all the ones I’ve come across (including OP just now).
I’m not just saying accounts, I’m saying entire news outlets. A while ago in Hungary, the government bought a popular independent news outlet. They still post articles criticising the government, basically nothing changed in alignment, the quality went down though.
But when there is a hot topic issue that could actually hurt the govt, or if there is an election, then key hit pieces are taken and posted without edits and changes from the government propaganda media, even if they are blatantly false.
Ah, gotcha. I guess I understood that as people who cherry pick things from otherwise credible sources to push a specific agenda.
Going to have to start keeping a closer eye out for mergers / purchases of media outlets. MBFC is a good check, but they grade over time. If an outlet gets purchased and changes direction, it can be a good while before their MBFC rating is updated.
Anyone with an ounce of integrity would be anti US, anti EU, anti Ukraine.
Anyone who has an ounce of integrity would be anti fascist and pro democracy.
In other words they would not support Russia or China.
I suspect everything you know about both countries has come from US propaganda
Everything you think is right is right, the rest is propaganda, right?
Critical thinking would be nice. You seem to easily dismiss things. Maybe tone down on the right wing media sources.
Just click on the author’s byline and look at their past "investigations, " it tells you all you need to know. But this article is filled with such endless BS it would take ages to unpack it all. I’ll just post one thing from the beginning of the article.
From the ravages of war, wow, what country invaded and annexed them multiple times and is ravaging them? Not worth mentioning I guess. The fighting is all the US and EU’s fault for helping Ukraine to defend itself! If Ukraine had just rolled over everytime Russia wanted to lop off sections of their country or even take the whole thing plus some neighboring countries to boot, then everything would be peaceful! It goes on from there like that. Impressive mental gymnastics throughout, and clearly trying to push an established viewpoint of the author rather than inform, really more of a bad opinion piece than an “investigation.”
Is the writer of the article right of center? Aaron Maté works for the Grayzone, which according to Wikipedia is a far left-wing news website and blog. His employment history does not suggest any strong right leaning.
They claim anything outside the approved echo chamber is right wing, as if they are left wing.
You missed a very important bit of info about The Grayzone: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-grayzone/
Reasoning: Propaganda, Conspiracies, False Claims Bias Rating: FAR LEFT Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY“Medium credibility” is pretty bad tho…
A lot of websites will do a bunch of small factual articles to keep rating up, but all the big headlines are fucking terrible.