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Yeah. The downside of this is that it gives countries like Russia an outlet to slip in pro-Russian propaganda through outlets that people come to trust based on
by makomk 8y ago
Yeah. The downside of this is that it gives countries like Russia an outlet to slip in pro-Russian propaganda through outlets that people come to trust based on their other reporting. There are basically two responses the US mainstream media could've taken to this - open up local platforms for those non-aligned views so that Russia can no longer leverage them, or use it to claim that non-approved views are just Russian propaganda - and they've gone with the latter.
- xster 8y agoOh ya, I was perhaps vague but don't get me wrong, I would of course prefer that American discourses could happen on American platforms and even if RT is letting proper non-corporate-aligned journalism run unfettered, it's just a means to an end and we can't count of their altruism. I think it's just the world responding with a higher profile countermeasure to a systemic problem that could be handled more 'naturally' but isn't.