@zoul nowhere in this discussion I said I "just trust" what people on a random YT channel say, but I also don't "just trust" something because a "mainstream" media outlet (that _claims_ to have editorial processes, etc.) says. I'd say that today the most insidious lying is done by omission, and mainstream media is very guilty of that. This is why in addition to occasionally posting stuff from mainstream media I also post things from other sources. People can make up their minds.
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@zoul I definitely don't agree with everything that the YT channel I linked says, but I think that it is still a valuable source of information and opinions that is different from the mainstream "orthodoxy".
BTW. how do you even define "mainstream", is Fox News mainstream? Because there are *a lot* (of IMO misguided) people who watch it. What is it that makes a media mainstream?
@matus_chochlik I don’t think Fox News is a credible source and I don’t think debating the definition of “mainstream” will get us anywhere. I just think that if you are sharing unverified political YouTube videos saying that “people can make up their minds”, you may very well become a part of the misinformation problem.
@zoul okay, is this a "credible" source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWI_swissinfo
the linked article describes something very similar happening to a Swiss citizen (and the YT channel mentions it multiple times in other videos)
@matus_chochlik That’s much better, thank you. It’s hard for me to judge the credibility of a website I have not known before, but it’s better than a random YouTube channel. As for the story itself, we are at war with Russia, or at least Russia is at war with us. Misinformation campaigns are an important weapon that we cannot afford to run loose. Doesn’t that sound reasonable?
@zoul yes we definitely are in an informational war;. Large part of that war is what Russia or the US is doing to us and part is what we are doing to ourselves. There is a difference between misinformation and information that doesn't support "our", "good" narratives. Just like I've seen that YT channel claim some things that are against my own personal experience and knowledge, I've seen outlets like BBC do exactly the same, but somehow despite all of this it is supposedly credible.
@zoul if I only listened and believed such media like BBC, DW, or FSM-forbid many Slovak or Czech "mainstream" media, I'd be very seriously misinformed (for example about migrants, trans people, climate change, Palestine, the war in Ukraine, our "great" response to the stupid orange-man's tariff war, GDPR, chat control, etc.), just like if I only listened to and blindly trusted random one-person media on the internet. This is why I look at many sources and try to think about it myself.
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