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I see a lot of politico links in this sub and I'd just like to say:

POLITICO Europe is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE.

That's a right leaning and pretty unethical publisher and politico has already been caught several times spreading reactionary propaganda. I also suspect they publish undisclosed opinion pieces as news. Like some fossil fuel investor explaining how wind turbines could be hacked by China without providing any compelling evidence. Many articles are well written so it's hard to spot the grift sometimes. Just stay vigilant.

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[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a bit exhausting. I use https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ to see biases and credibility of different websites. Anything that's not at least Center-X and High I pretty much dismiss. Rest I take with heaps of salt.

How do I know that site is trustworthy? I don't 🫠

[–] HaiZhung@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

The public discourse shifted (/was engineered to shift) so far right in the last 10-20 years, that you have to assume:

Right = extremist

Center = right

Left = center

Radical left = left

Left-leaning media is usually written based on facts. Which, somehow, in these times is accused to be „biased“.

[–] BETYU@moist.catsweat.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

this itself says you have a big bias there is almost no more center left and that's why the left keeps loosing.

Right = Right

Center = Center

Left = Radical left

Radical left = communist

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s not right leaning, it’s neoliberal (like a lot of centre-left). They’re predictably evil and biased so they’re a reasonable source of news, as long as you ignore their „scoops” which are usually made up.

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Axel Springer is totally a right wing press. And Matthias Döpfner, its CEO, totally went on record to celebrate the speech of Vance in Munich. Their german flagship journal, BILD, is reguarlly spreading propaganda and is pushing campaigns against migration and "the greens". They are scum and shouldn't be read.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What kind of right wing? Christian democrats? Why is Politico for cutting welfare then? Stop oversimplifying things please.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What kind of right wing? Christian democrats?

Neoliberalism.

Why is Politico for cutting welfare then?

Because part of neoliberalism is to weaken welfare so that people are pressured into accepting exploitative labour conditions.

Wait, do you think chistian democrats are pro welfare? Do you think, neoliberalism is a left leaning ideology?

Stop oversimplifying things please.

I might be wrong but your comment reads as if you think a political opinion automatically aligns with political parties (which would be massively oversimplifying the process of opinion making and political procedure).

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m fairly sure you won’t dispute that Christian democracy is a right wing ideology. What commonalities to neoliberalism do you see between both? You probably won’t find much so it makes little sense to group them together as „right wing”. I’m beating the drum here again so that people wake up and recognise who the centrists really are.

I’m not a conservative by any means but I don’t mind true right wing ideology. It can be a compassionate philosophy that focuses on common good. True right wing is very rare these days because they were replaced by populists who can’t be even categorised as conservatives. They’re just bullies. Liberals are bullies very often too.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Axel Springer isn't centrist. They are openly right wing and call out progressive positions as "woke bullshit" and stuff like that. They openly say that they are right wing.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You can be a neoliberal and against wokeness. Neoliberalism is about money. You don’t need to accept their label, they are using it because it serves their needs at the moment. Look at what they do rather what they say.

One day people will connect dots between „centrism” and far-right, it’ll be too late then based on what I’m seeing here though ;)