I searched for her name and despite the RFE article being a week old, no other more credible outlets have picked up on it. Maybe other outlets are using a different romanization of her name but this is certainly a red flag.

[–] Zaroni@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Compared to Russian sources radio free liberty is a baron of truth and press accountability, so frankly it does not matter.

[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

A shitty source not being the absolute worst source doesn't make it any less shitty than it is. If your only options for news are US government propaganda or Russian government propaganda, the only valid choice is to stop following the news.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

It literally isn't. RFE is definitely a US propaganda platform, but it objectively has nothing to do with the CIA these days. But you should probably check under your bed one more time just to make sure.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

RFE also "objectively" had nothing to do with the CIA for nearly 20 years after it was created, at which point it turned out the CIA had been funding it all along. But now we know they've stopped because they said they did, and anyone suggesting that they're not editorially independent is a paranoid loon, just as they would've been in the 50's and 60's.

Some of us don't believe that the people whose job it is to lie stopped lying because they said they did. Suggesting that the CIA is still doing things that they did regularly and successfully kept hidden in the past is not a conspiracy theory.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Preach! 🙌

[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

RFE is definitely a US propaganda platform, but™️

That's all you need to know. Scrap the whole source.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

IDK it might be beneficial to know if it's ANOTHER one of the 15 intelligence agencies the US operates...

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why? What possible reason could you have to belive they just turned over a new leaf?

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

"The CIA said that they don't have anything to do with Radio Free anymore so it must be true."

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 51 points 10 months ago

The CIA routinely funds groups covertly. As is the case with RFE, we are often able to confirm this covert funding decades later.

A main purpose of the CIA is to obscure what groups the U.S. supports. Did they just stop doing their job one day?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

sourced directly from the fertile fields of your ass