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by lpcvoid 913 days ago
RT doesn't provide "alternative views". It's pure, unfiltered propaganda. Can you honestly navigate there, read something and then claim "yeah, just another viewpoint"?
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Yes its nonsense but it does push the Russian point of view. You might think its absurd but they don't. Its just as absurd as the US pushing "weapons of mass destruction" down peoples throats and running with that nonsense for years. The point is that it is on a US owned platform that allows it to be suppressed, removed or outright dismissed.

Tiktok is not in that situation at all and that is a new paradigm we haven't had in a while.

It's wild to believe that if you just consume the worst information diarrhea from "both sides" that you'll have a nice holy unbiased universe-brain view. It's even more wild to see this fallacious nonsense here.
The point is that you have the option whereas before it didn't really exist in a mass market fashion.
I certainly wouldn't! But I would also add that many (most?) prominent US news outlets are just as bad.