As opposed to your very trusted sources of Vlad Putin and Russian TV? You act as though you are on the frontlines and have all the "legitimate" inside information and everything else is just anti Russian propaganda. It's pretty comical
This is his go to source.
Political views
The 29 April 2016 "Unmasking Zero Hedge" article by Bloomberg quoted former website staffer Colin Lokey as saying: "I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for
Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and
Trump anymore. It's wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run. This isn't a revolution. It's a joke." Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous," summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Obama=idiot.
Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader.
John Kerry=dunce.
Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."
[27] Lokey provided chat transcripts in which Ivandjiiski refers to America's "silent majority" as "beastly", while Backshall acknowledges life in the U.S. is bad "outside of my bubble".
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Wallace-Wells noted that the site demonstrated a pro-Russia bias, stating the site had a "pointed"
Russophilia.
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In a series of articles in June–July 2017, the
Financial Times, covering an event organised by one of the site's bloggers,
[q] said that, "It probably didn't help that ZeroHedge was also used as a lead-in for a 2016 New Yorker piece about the alt-right, despite its financial focus and a political bent that is more Drudge than Richard Spencer."
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In January 2020, when the site was removed from Twitter,
BuzzFeed News described Zero Hedge as "pro-Trump" and "far-right",
[29] while reporting on the removal,
The Washington Postsaid that Zero Hedge "In recent years, the blog has amplified right-wing conspiracy theories on a range of topics".
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In March 2020, American journalist Seth Hettena wrote an opinion-piece in
The New Republictitled "Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?", and provided details on the links between
Krassimir Ivandjiiski (the site publisher's Bulgarian father), and Soviet-era activities in propaganda, revealed during litigation initiated by the father against Hettena in the Bulgarian courts.
[1] Hettena commented that Zero Hedge has become "a forum for the hateful, conspiracy-driven voices of the angry white men of the alt-right. Racists, anti-Semites, extreme right-wingers, and conspiracy nuts were an underserved audience, and, as it turns out, a profitable one."
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In February 2022, intelligence officials from the United States claimed that Zero Hedge has amplified Russian propaganda, stating the site has published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence.
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