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yeronlyman · 51-55, M
@Confined can you cite that reference
@Confined As Trump would say, thousands of Americans die on the highway every year.
Confined · 56-60, M
@yeronlyman https://en.news-front.info/2020/07/18/american-coronavirus-vaccine-killed-five-ukrainians/?fbclid=IwAR2QO-SjdHe5qH5c-Kp1LBQhtHmNNwR8KAHC7OChHNUQBh-HFwwaQ60bWQw
@Confined Looks like a pro-Russian site.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays I think it's more than just "pro-Russian", but IS Russian.
A look at its other pages and articles show it is pretty much anti-West, anti-Israel, pro-Syria, anti-Ukrainian, for example.
We do know the Russian Federation is determinedly using the Internet to drive divisions and confusion in very many countries, by both direct interference in national systems and by specially-created accounts on Facebook etc.. This though is a separate and very sophisticated "news" site.
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It seems to work in the same way that many Western newspapers do. It publishes what are probably facts at least at heart; but in a biased way - selection of news bad in its publishers' terms, omission of key qualifying information, careful use of words, denial of opposing views, etc. This site has an authoritative air that exudes being above such bias, but the bias is there and more obvious than its editors might think.
For its relevant example, did those five unfortunate soldiers die from Covid-19 because the treatment was itself faulty, or simply ineffective, or was used too late or wrongly? Those are not asked. Instead we are given just three facts - they were vaccinated, the vaccine was made in America, they still died - leading us its writers hope, to take the two correlations as the cause, without questioning the evidence and validity of their case.
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One small but revealing detail - its standard of English (British or American) is very high but one or two passages still have the slightly wonky air of work by an author for whom it is a second language. I noticed too, an unfamiliar form of punctuation to show quotes.
I don't know if it's possible to examine the "Properties" of a web-site as you can with e-posts, to elicit the originating country from the wodge of source-code that the function displays.
A look at its other pages and articles show it is pretty much anti-West, anti-Israel, pro-Syria, anti-Ukrainian, for example.
We do know the Russian Federation is determinedly using the Internet to drive divisions and confusion in very many countries, by both direct interference in national systems and by specially-created accounts on Facebook etc.. This though is a separate and very sophisticated "news" site.
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It seems to work in the same way that many Western newspapers do. It publishes what are probably facts at least at heart; but in a biased way - selection of news bad in its publishers' terms, omission of key qualifying information, careful use of words, denial of opposing views, etc. This site has an authoritative air that exudes being above such bias, but the bias is there and more obvious than its editors might think.
For its relevant example, did those five unfortunate soldiers die from Covid-19 because the treatment was itself faulty, or simply ineffective, or was used too late or wrongly? Those are not asked. Instead we are given just three facts - they were vaccinated, the vaccine was made in America, they still died - leading us its writers hope, to take the two correlations as the cause, without questioning the evidence and validity of their case.
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One small but revealing detail - its standard of English (British or American) is very high but one or two passages still have the slightly wonky air of work by an author for whom it is a second language. I noticed too, an unfamiliar form of punctuation to show quotes.
I don't know if it's possible to examine the "Properties" of a web-site as you can with e-posts, to elicit the originating country from the wodge of source-code that the function displays.