https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    4 years ago

    i literally only ever hear people talk about bellingcat in reference to calling robert evans a fed. does it actually do anything?

    • FunnyBunny [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      https://www.rt.com/news/465786-bellingcat-higgings-attacks-gabbard-syria/

      Bellingcat was pushing the story about a chemical gas attack in Douma, Syria in 2018. The story never really added up, but it's constantly brought up to manufacture consent for intervention in Syria.

    • disco [any]
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      4 years ago

      Well, according to the article linked by OP, some people from Bellingcat gave a cyber security workshop at a Macedonian media company.

      They do a ton of work naming and shaming white supremacists in the US, which is mostly what Robert Evans is involved with. This makes him a fed.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They do a ton of work naming and shaming white supremacists in the US, which is mostly what Robert Evans is involved with. This makes him a fed.

        Wow so brave and important. Here, let me try

      • hazefoley [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        I don't actually think Robert Evans is a fed lol. He does have pretty garbage politics though

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah this is my take as well actually. He's not a fed, he's an anarcho :LIB:

          The real issue is that he thinks the machinery of empire can be used to do good, but the machinery is evil, it's not really capable of doing good.

      • FunnyBunny [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Well Bellingcat also probably got money from the UK government to spread propaganda. That's a pretty dishonest summary of the article.

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          Can you quote the portion of the article that suggests they did more than that? I wasn’t trying to be dishonest in my summary but I didn’t see anything else.