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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

If there is a better community for me to post this in please let me know prior to deleting this post.

Do any of you use Ground.news? It's pretty great at finding multiple sources of information on the same topic and helping to compare biases. Sometime in the not-too-distant past they stopped including articles from RT.com. I'm not really sure why. I found it really helpful when people would post from the Russian government news agency and show them other sides of the story, or when they actually posted decent stuff, share it from something that isn't so often crap.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

RT is a mouthpiece of the Russian government; the only "other side of the story" that would come from it would not only be misleading, but also promote the authoritarianism, war crimes, and aggression of the Russian government.

In an age when LLMs make reading the truth harder and harder, blacklisting publications that are guaranteed propaganda is essential.

In the same vein, even though I'm fully supportive of Ukraine and its right to self-defense, I don't think people should use any of the equivalent American propaganda agencies (U.S. Agency for Global Media: Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Office of Cuba Broadcasting), since their reporting is often deliberately biased in favor of American foreign policy interests. Furthermore, there's plenty of Western media sources not backed by state interests, so they're never the only source on something anyhow.

The only reliable public broadcasting organizations are those with independent operations financed via public contributions, such as the BBC.

Private broadcasting organizations often have bias as well, with tabloids and extremist sources such as Newsmax being just as unreliable and misleading as state-backed outlets, so vigilance in maintaining a line in the sand between journalism and propaganda is essential.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@fu RT is literally state propaganda of Russia. With lots of fake news and half coverage about anything. If you'd ask me to choose 2 news sources to get rid of from the face of the planet, they would be RT and Sputnik. They're not just propaganda about Russia (which is what TASS and other state media agencies are), they're simply Russian propaganda about anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@petrescatraian OK sure, but that doesn't address the issue of Ground.news not wanting to include it. Maybe theRussian government asked them to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The Russian regime would be more than happy to have their propaganda outlets branded "news". But it's not. And since it's not a source of news, there's no reason for Ground News to include it.

Besides which, RT has been sanctioned in the response to the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. This makes it difficult to maintain a business relationship, which linking might very well be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@fu I do think it's Ground News who decided to cut it. I don't think Russia would be sad if they receive any exposure at all. Not really sure, but probably they wanted to set a threshold on how much of the propaganda/bias they would allow on their platform at all.

idk, my 2c.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are plenty of other international outlets on there to give other perspectives, RT doesn’t give perspectives though, they give intentionally incorrect information to create confusion, not even to push a specific line, just to muddy the waters as much as possible. It subtracts from context, doesn’t add to it.