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They're pushing some crazy conspiracy theories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
I hope they crash and burn... Far left! Pah, these people are nothing but far from sane.
EDIT: Lol at all the russian disinformants in the replies. Wikipedia literally references tens of articles that were conspiracy theories. "without evidence" only works if you're blind. Also weird that the website only lists anti-ukrainian articles....
That wiki page is hilarious. The cite for the claim greyzone is misinformation is a paper that offhandedly and without evidence says that grey zone is misleading people.
Actually most of the cites are "people are saying' levels of evidence. Wikipedia is a joke.
If you wanted to claim that greyzone was " sympathetic to authoritarian régimes" or "denied genocide" then you could just link directly to the greyzone to show what they're doing, but instead they wiki authors have decided to cite articles the obliquely mention these claims. Its the equivalent of writing a ransom note with magazine clippings but with citations.
I suspect they avoid linking directly because GZ articles are usually well sourced and have nuances that don't support the wiki author's bs.
This is exactly it, but not directly. Grayzone is forbidden from being used as a source on Wikipedia for this reason.