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by BiteCode_dev 1018 days ago
They are pretty much the equivalent to the BBC or CNN: a lot of it is alright, but they are still tools for their own gov propaganda.

Because they are different govs, with different agendas, each of them see the propaganda of others as evil, but it's still all very much propaganda.

Remember CNN diffused many bits on how WMD were in Irak to justify the war the UN voted against. The USA went to war anyway, and we learned there were no WMD.

Al Jazeera does the same, but for their side.

It is, nevertheless, quite qualitative content for many topics, and give you another points of on the world events than our own medias outlet.

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> They are pretty much the equivalent to the BBC

I am sorry, but they aren't. This is just false equivalence, you can just go read BBC's coverage of UK politics and you will see criticism of their government

Yeah thats not true.

All you have to do is just compare bbc coverage on palestine and ukraine.

The BBC is absolutely biased.

Indeed, the conservative government has been trying to get rid of the bbc precisely because the bbc criticises it more than everyone else!