• cygnus
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    4 months ago

    True, but these people have been completely aligned with Kremlin talking points for years, and I wish the article and others would take the time to point that out. I’m sure it can be phrased in an ambiguous enough way that the reader can draw conclusions without it being libelous.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOP
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      4 months ago

      The AP is a straight news organization, I’m sure there are plenty of left wing articles about the situation that mention that though.

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        4 months ago

        Doesn’t MBFC already rate AP as “left”? Any factual reporting outlet is going to be called “left” because facts are seen as “left” in today’s Overton window.

        I think it’s dishonest to pretend these Russian operatives had any plausible deniability. There is absolutely nothing plausible about their denial. Just because they weren’t charged with knowingly accepting Russian money doesn’t mean it wasn’t extremely obvious that they knew where the money was coming from.

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          3 months ago

          MBFC is full of shit when describing bias - they call firmly right liberal capitalists “the left”. I don’t think they even have a word to describe actual socialists.

          They’re decent about judging the reliability of factual reporting though.