About politico.eu
About politico.eu
I see a lot of politico links in this sub and I'd just like to say:
POLITICO Europe is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE.
That's a right leaning and pretty unethical publisher and politico has already been caught several times spreading reactionary propaganda. I also suspect they publish undisclosed opinion pieces as news. Like some fossil fuel investor explaining how wind turbines could be hacked by China without providing any compelling evidence. Many articles are well written so it's hard to spot the grift sometimes. Just stay vigilant.
Agreed. But it’s one of the more harmless sources people often share here. People share right wing billionaire owned sources all the time. It really ticks me off.
the Telegraph by right wing billionaires Barclay brothers, the Times (UK) owned by far right billionaire Rupert Murdoch, notorious friend of Trump and owner of Fox News
EuroNews, bought by shell corp strongly linked to Victor Orbán’s, authoritarian government.
HuffPost I think was recently bought by right wing billionaire who is friends with Trump. (not sure about this one)
Axel Springer SE is owned by billionaires, too, and they're obviously far right, too. They also own BILD, which is probably Germany's most popular "newspaper" (legally not allowed to call itself "newspaper" due to low quality) and it's very far right.
We probably need a comprehensive list of common news sources' political allignments. Fits the current spirit anyway.
I'll start: The Guardian (UK) is self-owned (owned by an organization whose purpose is the long term economic viability and editorial independence of the Guardian).
I was confused there and thought you were saying that they were bought by the Shell corporation. But after doing some searching and reading, I see what you mean: a shell corporation.
There’s definitely concern around Victor Orban’s influence. And
your own newsEuronews have had Clickbait headlines for quite awhile already. I prefer DW now myself.DW is operated by the German government with the goal to further the "German viewpoint" internationally. It is not a public broadcaster, but explicitly operated by the federal government.
It's a bit exhausting. I use https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ to see biases and credibility of different websites. Anything that's not at least Center-X and High I pretty much dismiss. Rest I take with heaps of salt.
How do I know that site is trustworthy? I don't 🫠
The public discourse shifted (/was engineered to shift) so far right in the last 10-20 years, that you have to assume:
Right = extremist
Center = right
Left = center
Radical left = left
Left-leaning media is usually written based on facts. Which, somehow, in these times is accused to be „biased“.
MBFC is run by some dude whose evidence basically is also just "trust me bro".
At the end of the day you won't get around reading multiple sources and trying to understand for yourself what is going on. Also there is issues that are systematically ignored or downplayed by the "center" and "trustworthy" media, in particular when it comes to the consequences of western politics in "poorer" countries or when a government appointed but not official, but still pretty influential guy makes a nazi salute on stage, twice, but it is not declared to be that, despite hundred of millions of people having seen it on video.
Could be worse
It’s not right leaning, it’s neoliberal (like a lot of centre-left). They’re predictably evil and biased so they’re a reasonable source of news, as long as you ignore their „scoops” which are usually made up.
Axel Springer is totally a right wing press. And Matthias Döpfner, its CEO, totally went on record to celebrate the speech of Vance in Munich. Their german flagship journal, BILD, is reguarlly spreading propaganda and is pushing campaigns against migration and "the greens". They are scum and shouldn't be read.
Right now it's a bit of a mixed bag but once they're a more established news source they'll 100% go all in with the grifting. That's the most predictable thing about this publisher.