• radiofreeval [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t doubt this as it’s happened to others, but Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a literal CIA mouthpeice and tends to make stuff up.

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      1 year ago

      I searched for her name and despite the RFE article being a week old, no other more credible outlets have picked up on it. Maybe other outlets are using a different romanization of her name but this is certainly a red flag.

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      1 year ago

      It literally isn’t. RFE is definitely a US propaganda platform, but it objectively has nothing to do with the CIA these days. But you should probably check under your bed one more time just to make sure.

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        RFE also “objectively” had nothing to do with the CIA for nearly 20 years after it was created, at which point it turned out the CIA had been funding it all along. But now we know they’ve stopped because they said they did, and anyone suggesting that they’re not editorially independent is a paranoid loon, just as they would’ve been in the 50’s and 60’s.

        Some of us don’t believe that the people whose job it is to lie stopped lying because they said they did. Suggesting that the CIA is still doing things that they did regularly and successfully kept hidden in the past is not a conspiracy theory.

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        The CIA routinely funds groups covertly. As is the case with RFE, we are often able to confirm this covert funding decades later.

        A main purpose of the CIA is to obscure what groups the U.S. supports. Did they just stop doing their job one day?

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      1 year ago

      Compared to Russian sources radio free liberty is a baron of truth and press accountability, so frankly it does not matter.

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        1 year ago

        A shitty source not being the absolute worst source doesn’t make it any less shitty than it is. If your only options for news are US government propaganda or Russian government propaganda, the only valid choice is to stop following the news.