Media bias / fact check for Voice of Europe;
Bias: Extreme Right
Credibility: Low
.Notes: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Anti-Islam. Voice of Europe also has a poor track record with fact checkers.
Overall, this site is Questionable due to extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories and poor sourcing. A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence.
Sure sounds like a source I want to line the litterbox with.
As far as I can tell they just translated a Defence Arabia article and cross-referenced it with publicly available information on US deliveries to Ukraine. In another comment, I cited the original article (in Arabic) that they appear to draw from.
I don’t care. I’m tired of people submitting bullshit sources and then coming up with a reason as to why it’s okay to listen to them just this one time. It drives attention and revenue to those sources, encourages their bad behavior, and normalizes the source as ‘sometimes okay’ in people’s minds, eventually leading people to be less critical and and more susceptible to the bullshit the source wants to spread. Which is EXACTLY how propaganda outlets work.
How about we engage with the content? They didn’t make up the numbers, so why is Morocco getting more tanks than Ukraine and why do they need so many?
why do they need so many
For doing stuff like this: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends.
Thank you
Obviously because Morocco makes sure Western Sahara stays a colony deprived of rights, so the West keeps getting those natural resources for cheap.
Who knows, maybe a better source would have provided some much needed information.
First sentence says where they deployed them, dingus.
Oh so you knew why Morocco needed so many, yet you asked?
Nah I asked first and looked later. I was so overcome by the need to pop someone’s little righteous justice boner I couldn’t help but comment first.
So that Morocco can enforce itself as the Israel of Western Sahara.
The comment you’re responding to explicitly stated why they don’t want to engage with this content. To try answering your question though, I’m going to guess it’s because Morocco has been buying US arms for a lot longer than Ukraine has. In the title, “has received” is incredibly misleading, it makes it seem like the US is giving tanks to Morocco, but they’re buying them.
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I don’t care how they feel about the source. I think we’re all grown-ups here and are capable of seeing through any propaganda the source may have added to the facts. I’m here to discuss the factual content of the article, which is rather interesting. I haven’t been following the drama of northwestern Africa’s territorial disputes.
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Don’t guess, because you’re just wrong. 1st sentence. “The received tanks were immediately deployed to the southern part of the country, specifically to the disputed Western Sahara region.” Some other commentors added more relevant info, so nice of them.
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“has received” is indeed misleading, if you’re in high school. No one receives weapons for free, not even Ukraine or Israel. Obviously Morocco paid for them.
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Why do you say that media bias fact check is baseless propaganda?
edit: One of the most left leaning but highly factual news sites I go to is Fair.org. This site is almost always against the major mainstream media consensus, but backs up its claims with lots of high quality reasoning and evidence. MBFC rate it left-center and high factual reporting.
It gives Jacobin, probably one of the biggest left leaning news sites in the US, a left leaning and high factual reporting score. Jacobin calls themselves left leaning, of course. For anyone who knows history, it’s right in their name. So what’s the problem there?
Meanwhile, it gives all the major right wing news sites poor ratings. Fox News, Breitbart, Epoch times, etc. get an extreme right and Mixed factual reporting score.
So I understand why you would besmirch MBFC if you’re some rightwinger. But, from the left, I don’t understand. Reality has a left leaning bias.
It’s true that MBFC biased but it’s consistent with its bias. Just shift their ratings to the right by about a meter then it will be accurate.
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Is it their fault that right wing “news” outlets lie all the time?
Bruh of course a .ml says this shit
Could this be from an agreement/treaty already put in place before Russia’s invasion?
USA and Morocco signed a treaty 1786 which remains the longest unbroken relationship in U.S. history, in 2004 Morocco was declared a “Major Non-NATO Ally”, and Morocco’s military and law enforcement train and work together with their U.S. counterparts.
Well yeah they’re a colonial occupying power. Ukraine is just trying to resist one.
Morocco? Or do you mean the US?
Morocco, it runs Africa’s last colony, with all the brutality that implies.
The US brokered a deal under the Trump administration where Morocco would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for the US “recognizing their sovereignty” over neighbouring Western Sahara, a mineral rich region.
Background: Western Sahara: the six-decade struggle to liberate Africa’s last colony.
Original source seems to be from Defense Arabia in Arabic: https://defensearabia.com/2023/11/المغرب-يحصل-على-دبابات-أبرامز-وينقل/
Well how else could they keep the Saharawi menace at bay and keep their stolen land?
Stolen land? Every single person alive today is on stolen land. The only difference is how recently their ancestors stole it.
Even the first nations of North America stole land from other tribes for a few millenia before the Europeans showed up and stole it all.
The world has never been, and will never be, a static place.
There are plenty of reasons to help out disadvantaged or oppressed groups, ownership of land just isn’t one of them.
Every single person alive today is on stolen land
Who the Aborigines stole the land from? Or Polynesians?
Each other.
These people fought, they aren’t some sort of saints that always got along peacefully for 60,000 years.
This part of history always gets ignored, but there are archeology studies showing it definitely happened.
Interesting theory. So Americans stole the land from Americans because there was a civil war? That’s definitely a way to look at it.
You’re grouping together people who were not together. The different tribes that existed were similar to the countries that exist today, though obviously a little less formal in nature.
It’s not a civil war when two different tribes fought. Any more than it would be a civil war if Canada and the US fought.
Not quite. Morocco has historical claims to the Western Sahara as well as Mauritania. Morocco was carved up by the Spanish and French during the scramble for Africa in the 19th century. While Morocco eventually gave up its claims to Mauritania it retained the Rif and Western Sahara.
historical claims
That’s a bit misleading.
I’m willing to discuss the nuances, but you just linked me to a very long Wikipedia article.
