Tag: Media Disinformation

Categories Russia

Navalny’s ‘doctor’, who never actually treated activist, ‘liquidated’ in secret Kremlin plot, says conspiracy-loving Western media

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Western media has jumped down the rabbit hole into another Kremlin killing conspiracy after a doctor in the Siberian city of Omsk died suddenly – taking to the grave, they say, secrets about opposition figure Alexey Navalny. … Read More >Navalny’s ‘doctor’, who never actually treated activist, ‘liquidated’ in secret Kremlin plot, says conspiracy-loving Western media

Categories Russia

Western media smeared Moscow’s Covid-19 vaccine efforts but new trial data now has countries queuing for Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

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Clinical trial data published in The Lancet medical journal this week shows the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine works for more than nine in 10 people, making it among the most efficacious jabs available. … Read More >Western media smeared Moscow’s Covid-19 vaccine efforts but new trial data now has countries queuing for Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

Categories Journalism & Mass media

NY Times’ pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for far-right cult Falun Gong’s publicity arm

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The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a right-wing apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of “genocide,” in an op-ed by an American with 1/8th Uighur heritage who worked for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by cult Falun Gong. … Read More >NY Times’ pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for far-right cult Falun Gong’s publicity arm

Categories USA

Americans’ trust in mainstream media has never been lower – but journalists insist it’s the audience’s fault, not theirs

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Fewer than half of Americans trust mainstream media, according to PR firm Edelman’s annual “trust barometer.” But rather than attempt to repair the relationship, media outlets blame their audience’s poor ‘information hygiene.’ … Read More >Americans’ trust in mainstream media has never been lower – but journalists insist it’s the audience’s fault, not theirs

Categories Russia

US media continues to try to link Trump to Kremlin, but in reality American Republicans have more in common with Putin’s opponents

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American elites don’t understand that Russian ‘liberals’ are more similar to Republicans than Democrats. What’s more, Joe Biden, and other US centre-leftists, are politically closer to Vladimir Putin than the Moscow opposition. … Read More >US media continues to try to link Trump to Kremlin, but in reality American Republicans have more in common with Putin’s opponents

Categories Russia

Twitter’s hypocritical censorship: Misinformation on Western Covid vaccines banned, falsehoods about Russia’s Sputnik V permitted

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Twitter has censored numerous users, including Iran’s Supreme Leader, for criticism of Western Covid-19 vaccines, but “respectable” Western journalists can spread misinformation and distrust in Russia’s Sputnik V with impunity. … Read More >Twitter’s hypocritical censorship: Misinformation on Western Covid vaccines banned, falsehoods about Russia’s Sputnik V permitted

Categories Shows

Former editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger on the Julian Assange case, Capitol riots

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former editor-in-chief at The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger. He discusses his new book, ‘What to Believe in a Fake News World and How to Use It’, the age of ‘information chaos’ and the increased skepticism of mainstream media, Donald Trump’s use of distrust for the media to further his political ambitions, the Capitol riots … Read More >Former editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger on the Julian Assange case, Capitol riots

Categories Russia

Is Russia really in decline? Western pundits still insist country on brink despite repeated predictions of apocalypse falling flat

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The chorus of doom mongering Western experts and media commentators has failed to send Russians scrambling to buy tinned goods or trading cash for precious metals, as their gloomy predictions again failed to come to pass in 2020. … Read More >Is Russia really in decline? Western pundits still insist country on brink despite repeated predictions of apocalypse falling flat