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SeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts

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Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts

www.rferl.org

SeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg sentenced anti-war activist Olga Smirnova to six years in prison on August 30 on a charge of spreading fake news about the armed forces.
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    deleted by creator

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      If you need a Russian source:

      https://newizv.ru/news/2023-08-30/sud-v-peterburge-prigovoril-aktivistku-olgu-smirnovu-k-shesti-godam-za-feyki-ob-armii-418023

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        Thank you

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      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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      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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        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.

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      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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          Preach! 🙌

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        RFE is definitely a US propaganda platform, but™️

        That’s all you need to know. Scrap the whole source.

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          IDK it might be beneficial to know if it’s ANOTHER one of the 15 intelligence agencies the US operates…

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        Why? What possible reason could you have to belive they just turned over a new leaf?

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          “The CIA said that they don’t have anything to do with Radio Free anymore so it must be true.”

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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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        sourced directly from the fertile fields of your ass

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