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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Ahh so you're critical to the USA when it affects Norway's sovereignty, but not other nations sovereignty?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don't have the time to search out unbiased alternative perspectives unfortunately. Similar to macro issue of people who are paid to spread propaganda can devote time to influencing public opinion.

 

Soferman seems to be flooding this sub with pro-western news articles. Taken en aggregate, I see it as propaganda and I think this violates the "No Propaganda" rule. I'd like to appeal to the mods to make a review.

For example: Soferman shares articles from VOA, which is US state sponsored propaganda. This, plus all of his other articles that seem to be focused on anti-russian or anti-chinese messaging with a few general interest stories sprinkled in, paints the picture of someone trying to influence users to form a specific opinion. It really feels like propaganda.

Maybe we can impose a limit to the amount of topics any one user can post per day?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You've said the same things about the other side of stories you're sharing on here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's coming off as western propaganda spam posting. I'd appreciate it if you only shared one or two articles you found insightful rather than 5+ articles a day on what you've read. I already have an RSS feed thanks.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

K this is just spam now.

 

Apologies for the all caps I'm copy pasting the title from the blog. Good article about Belarus, gives a better perspective than dog whistle mainstream media attacks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You're over generalizing and why do you post several articles here a day anyway out of curiosity?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You might be right. I watched The Dissident recently and it made me realize how many countries pay people to just comment things on the internet to try to away public opinion though. Why this guy is posting pro imperial news articles on a site that is anti imperial is really
weird. He's an evangelical out of the goodness of his heart? One or two maybe but he spams the site every day with anti-russian and anti-chinese articles. Who does that and why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Strawmen fallacy, I'm not an anarcho communist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It's entirely possible Lemmy is being seen as a potential anti-establishment platform and having one or two trolls assigned to the platform is worth the hours. Soferman says he works in communications could mean he sidegigs for a Pro-US troll farm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (7 children)

So you must know then that media outlets contain geopolitical bias?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

My recommendation would be if there's a political issue being portrayed in the media with a specific slant (usually it starts with the headline), to then search using Metager, Qwant, or Google for a media outlet from the country in question or source to see how they're spinning the same issue. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.

For example, if you're reading an article about China in western media, read about the same issue in Xinhua or CGTN to see what they say. Then critically assess both sides, and form an opinion. Pretend you're working for the UN maybe. Likewise, if you read a story about US politics that is pro democrat, read the same article from a fox news or The Hill perspective. It'll be pretty clear the Fox news (right wing) perspective is filled with logical fallacies but it still allows you to think critically and form your own opinion.

You might also consider reading up on political economy perspectives on an issue or a country to see where their interests, and ergo, media bias lies. USA media is pro-USA. USA is an imperial nation with hegemonic interests around the world. USA media will always report international events with the USA being the good guy. I like Le Monde Diplomatique English Edition to get political economy perspectives on a country's current affairs, you might find it educations.

Alternatively, find academic bloggers who are experts in a region that share their opinions on current events to get a more nuanced perspective. The "Irussianality Blog" for example is written by a Canadian professor of eastern European studies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

Strongly suggest you consider doing your own critical thinking on every issue and news source rather than relying on another website to tell you how to think about a media source. These fact verifying sites and news bias identifiers are only good for reinforcing internet arguments with ad hominem fallacy and wasting peoples time. There are good and bad stories in a pro imperial NYT and anti imperial Grayzone. Please read the article, think critically about it, then form an opinion.

 

Thinking of how the Brave browser blocks ads but then replaces them with their own to generate revenue.

What if there was a browser/chrome/Firefox add-on that you paid ($2 a month?) That installed a cookie on your device that would then remove adds from all.the sites you visited, that gained a share of what you paid in order to remove ads for you. So mass media sites, tech sites, etc. Would recognize your cookie, see that you've paid, and track how many sites you visited and then bill the company for how many users subscribed to the ad free service.

 

The democratic party is really good at dulling sharp high potential politicans.

 

Looks like The Intercept is cleaning house now that Glenn Geenwald is gone. Seems like they're becoming another State Department backed Bellingcat type publication.

 

The Russian ships can lay 1km a day, there are 126 km in the Danish waters left to be laid. Without interruption they'll likely have all the pipe laid by August.

 

Does Trump not wear this as a badge of honour? "Yeah I was impeached or attempted impeached because I fought the establishment and they tried to get rid of me because I fought too hard." or something like that? This seems vindictive and polarizing for a guy who's leaving in 9 days. Trump is the worst but this seems like the Democrats shooting themselves in the foot.

 

This is cutting.

 

Classic classic

 

Hi,

Where is Lemmy.ml domiciled? Where do the donations go?

I'm concerned about data rights as well as tax support for imperialist regimes like the USA.

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