The affinity for Tucker Carlson (as well as the other things) is from the sidebar. Apparently their familiarity with Western media is enough to know he is pro-Russian, but not enough to realize that expressing on a leftist forum that they like him, will make them glow a little bit.

The original issue was that they posted a story from Mint Press News, and I dropped them a friendly note that it was Russian propaganda, more or less assuming they had included it innocently (since there was nothing wrong at all that I can see with the particular story, or in fact with any of the stories in that community.)

Things escalated. Fun quotes by the mod from the ensuing conversation:

It’s actually not from “New Knowledge,” it’s from a US Senate report, but I doubt that will make this person believe it any more.

The real disinformation was inside us all this time. Of course, I was banned. Reason for the ban?

Clearly, their disinformation policy is lock tight.

  • anarchost@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate are pretty shitty people in their own right

    Idk if they’re getting funded, but Gray Zone definitely sucks. Their coverage is consistently atrocious, and they publish unmitigated apologia for some of the worst regimes on the planet (specifically Assad). I’ve made this point repeatedly, but Max Blumenthal - the Gray Zone’s founder - actually resigned from Al Akhbar after they began propagating the sort of Assad apologia he’s since made a career out of. He later published a piece addressing the merits of humanitarian intervention in Syria in a far more nuanced capacity than anything that’s ever appeared on Gray Zone. It seems pretty evident that he’s a grifter who’s found a very particular niche to profit off of.