• Sem@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It is argumentum ad hominem. Imo, doesn’t matter what site is it. If the site has a bad reputation just check sources twice but do not reject the article just because the site. That’s how I see it.

    • 🦘min0nim🦘@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Checking sources twice is something you should do from a news agency that is actually reputable. As in it trades on being honest and accurate.

      You’re not obliged to read everything from an outlet that has no track record of honesty and integrity simply because you’ve been beaten around the head with the internet ‘logical fallacy’ meme one too many times.

      Thinking that everything you read on the internet should be worth your time to fact check is the ultimate logical fallacy.

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      1 year ago

      article titles on its Arabic website include “The Holocaust — that great deception”, “Why do the Jews rejoice at the burning of Notre Dame in Paris?”, “Jews and Freemasons in the Arabs’ revolutions”, and “The Jews of ‘Israel’” — this is why their end is certain"

      They also refer to the Ukrainian government as a “Nazi regime.”

      Your choice, but choosing to believe that site is plainly asking to be lied to. Advising others to “check sources twice” is pretty laughable in this context. This is unintelligent and blatant propaganda.

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      Sorry, if you post Nazi propaganda and Holocaust denialism, you lose all credibility as a source.

      Nazis are more than welcome to try to argue that they are a decent source, but anyone with a brain is going to discount the site and stories when you see the dreck they post.