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[–] gmatkins 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

MintPress news repostsRussian-generated fake news stories and defended Bashar Al-Assad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If we're going to do this whole "your source is unreliable" nonsense, can we at least get some consistency? Attack the BBC for outright lies and misinformation and siding with moneyed interests at the expense of the rest of humanity; attack CNN for the same; attack The Economist for the same; attack NYT for the same; attack the Washington Post for the same.

Also, just because their editorial opinion differs from yours doesn't mean they're unreliable. Just because they "defended Bashar Al-Assad" doesn't mean they are "fake news". There are plenty of people in the world whose world-view does not align with yours, and they aren't all lying and wrong.

Edit to add: In this specific case, we saw several news sources you are unlikely to call 'fake news' all report the same lie with tiny variations: NYT, CNN, and Politico, among others. What they said was so blatantly false, even the Pentagon denounced it. Cuba condemned the reports, saying:

Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said the accusation is “untrue and unfounded”, arguing that the articles were “promoted with the malicious intention to justify the unprecedented reinforcement of the economic blockade, destabilization and the aggression against Cuba”.

Why would the USA do such a thing? Perhaps it's because The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.). Have we seen similar actions from these untrustworthy news sources in the past? Absolutely, NYT published an article in 2020 that, while demonstrably false, was still cited by the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and used to extend the war in Afghanistan; the Pentagon even admitted the report was false only a couple weeks later.

Before you get all up in arms that a news outlet from another country or side of the political spectrum must be spewing 100% lies, you should ask yourself why you are willingly to blindly believe the entrenched western media outlets, who have proven time and again that they are used to manipulate world events, manipulate public opinion, and are overall a blight on the average man's wellbeing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NYT CNN and Politico are the definition of fake news. They have verbating pushed israeli propaganda and even manufactured it for israel. They run their coverage past israel and have israeli editors.

For more info https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good and based

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Hope you at least get paid for the trolling