• Yor [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    it’s quite literally made for people like OP who are willing to boost even the most dubious sources to score a point against evil Russia

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      He will now be held in a grim adult detention centre [article later notes he was sentenced to a juvenile facility]

      a top performing student at school

      no scrap of evidence for this was produced

      a hellhole adult detention centre [in the same sentence where the article notes he’s going to juvee]

      If this was a story about, say, a January 6 defendant, these types of editorial decisions would jump out at people as an obvious sign of significant bias. Pull the exact same rhetorical tricks against a Bad Country, though, and most simply accept it at face value.