Russia-Ukraine Invasion

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  • jagara5

    I (obviously) have zero trust in Russian state-controlled mainstream media. Russia is a de facto dictatorship, punishing its own people with up to 15 years of prison, for using the word "war" instead of the state-approved "special military operation".

    I (generally) trust western mainstream media. But even so, the west (and Ukraine) has its own reasons for using tactical misinformation. When i hear optimistic news about Russia failing, I tend to take it with more than a grain of salt.

    How do you navigate? What's your preferred news source(s)?

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    • Agreed 100% with you. Unfortunately, I still more or less rely on sources like The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, WaPo, and NYT ...Continuity
    • ... simply because I trust non-MSM even less.Continuity
    • The DW interview I just posted above with a Russian investigative journalist is pretty good....seems objective.yuekit
    • That said, I think that western non-Fox MSM has done a pretty good job. Is the reporting accurate? I think largely yes.Continuity
    • @yuekit, interview like the DW one you posted are precisely why I think western media is largely on-point. The Guardian and the NYT have done similar piecesContinuity
    • ... in the last few weeks.Continuity
    • The cheerleading for Ukraine can get carried away in some cases but I don't think the overall picture painted by the Western media is false.yuekit
    • The one thing I have been doing at all costs, though, is avoiding social media on this subject. No FB, no IG, nothing.Continuity
    • it's an incredible thing to have a choice.
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    • @Continuity Re: SoMe: Couldn't agree more.jagara
    • ap, reuters, eRTe, yt, twitter, telegram, some native forums eh., minimal cnn and i'm so happy that i can separate the two sides on my fb. because .hu is fckd.
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    • and the proper old-school rassan2hungarian. unlike most of the online translators, it knows all the 3 meanings of a word:
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    • ru2hu is 2x the size as the hu2ru:)
      https://i.imgur.com/…
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    • Surely the only trustable source is QNB, right?Chimp
    • Financial media. It seems to have a broader attention span, and has the constraint that if they lie, people lose their money, and they lose their audience.monNom
    • Still to be taken with a grain of salt, to be sure, but rarely is there an article about ‘who do we hate today’ in the business pages.monNom
    • Most of what I post is from Bloomberg, FT, etc. sometimes CNN, and random twitter. Tons of info everywhere, if you're interested in something...
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    • in europe, yes Reuters and AP and independendent local news sources
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    • @monNom massive grain of salt in all directions. there are basic things that when they fall over bigger trouble happens than we’ve seen so far.
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    • It is important to step back and look at the bigger picture sometimes, to see into what direction are the events pulling both sides.
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    • @sted is that even possible anymore? I mean anything coming from Russia is 99% state propaganda?
      I try to post objective but it's all subjective yknow
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    • I see a lot of US mediums taking a much more aggressive tone than they should.
      European news agencies are trying to focus on facts and it isn't easy.
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    • As you go east the tone change with influence from fake, made up "news", unhinged opinions, and incredible amount of noise.
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    • Some of this is visible on Facebook and Twitter for the English speaking internet users.
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