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This thread does a good rundown of why the whole pathogen biolab allegation is just a bunch disinformation. Like with many such claims, it's appealing at first blush, but someone with more knowledge can spot that it's misleading.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What the fuck happened to Glenn Greenwald? He did good reporting on Snowden

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

He started going downhill in 2016, accepting material he knew was from Russian intelligence. It appears that the final straw was when he wanted to publish articles in support of some of the conspiracy theories around Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and China. The Intercept didn't feel like they passed journalistic muster and refused to publish them. He parted ways for Substack.

[–] Sigma_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get it. It's so strange.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, how do you go from a genuinely great investigative reporter to a conspiracy nut

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

His heart's in the right place, but he's very credulous. So sometimes he's right accidentally like with Snowden. But often he's just peddling bullshit.

[–] putinmoipresident@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cross-posted this in the 'NATO's war in Ukraine' community and a mod deleted it logging this (Removed Post Debunking of Ukraine biolab claims reason: western bullshit) someone needs to check these mods and see if they have everyone's best interest in mind ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] a_Ha@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Since this :
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
Admin. Dessalines on "US atrocities"
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We should at least remain critical. Thanks for your work 👍.

[–] putinmoipresident@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Your whole essays repo is very nice. Did someone add the biolab nonsense to that list in your repo or something? Sorry not really following the relevance of this to my comment