everything you learned in school is a lie

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[–]TokLwdSaNthg 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

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. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-unz-report/

[–]noice 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

According to that website, almost all right-leaning sources are "extreme", "promote hate", promote "conspiracy theories", etc. and all left wing sources have only mild-mannered bias. This should raise questions about that fact checking site. It is perhaps interesting that it's consistent with the mainstream media narrative.

[–]TokLwdSaNthg 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They also identify left-leaning sources and their bias eg.… “utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes” https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/leftcenter/

[–]noice 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Compare the connotations of those words with the ones characterizing the right. The bias should be obvious

[–]TokLwdSaNthg 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And Zero-Hedge is hardly the gold standard of objective reporting