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.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Oh look at my cool Wikipedia page which is completely written like a slander piece in a way no other Newspaper is and all the sources refer to other websites”!

    How are the Israeli mass rapes going which the mainstream Western newspapers reported to have seen video evidence of by the way? Israel said they suddenly have no evidence of it all. Why are their Wikipedia pages not filled with how they spread massive lies about WMD’s in Iraq?

    The Syria case is a peculiar one which may or may not be true but no conclusive evidence has ever been brought forward. The reason the chemical attack case is extremely sketchy is that America declared that to be their red line to start bombing Syria. Then “suddenly” a massive chemical attack happens and America starts attacking the Assad government which was very convenient to its opponents.

    Assad was certainly no nice guy, but the recent Syrian takeover by Al-Qaeda and its instant capitulation to America, promise to normalize with Israel and tireless work to arrest all Palestinian resistance groups and fight Hezbollah only makes it pretty obvious that these groups fighting Assad were no more than American proxies doing their exact bidding.