Gonzalo Lira is a Chilean-American journalist who was recently arrested in Ukraine over a series of YouTube videos he’d published critical of the Ukraine gov...

AI summary:

A Chilean journalist, Gonzalo Lira, who had been living in Ukraine, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine on suspicion of pro-Russian sympathies and criticizing the government. He had been detained before in April, released, and then rearrested for voicing views critical of the West and Ukraine’s government. He faced torture while imprisoned, then managed to post bail but decided to flee to Hungary for political asylum. He believed the Ukrainian government was setting him up to be arrested again. He went missing after attempting to cross the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. The situation highlighted concerns about free speech and the treatment of dissenters in Ukraine.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      171·
      1 year ago

      Oh wow a TikTok and YouTube video. Irrefutable proof that everything you say must be true and factual. 🙄

      Can you explain why your title reads “U.S. journalist” yet the very first line of the article states “Chilean journalist?” Why does your link contain material directly from Russian state media? You claim that US media are pushing lies, but how does that have any bearing on whether your link is true? Sounds like someone needs to redo their Propaganda101 course. Good luck, comrade!

      • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
        1012·
        1 year ago

        The TikTok video appears to be more well-researched than most of the current reporting.

        The summary is AI generated. You need to hear both Russian and US propaganda if you want to be able to know the truth about the war. The link doesn’t have to be true, you have to do your own due diligence by gathering as much information as possible and sifting through it if you want to reach the truth. This is just a piece of the puzzle. I don’t know why someone so critical of Russia would say comrade.

        Edit: a dual citizen of the United States and Chile, who has been living in Kharkiv

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          So you admit that your post is Russian propaganda and that it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not because you have to read a bunch of propaganda to find the truth? That makes zero sense. Hearing propaganda repeated from different sources doesn’t lead you to the truth whatsoever.

          • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
            134·
            1 year ago

            It’s as much propaganda as any news from the US mainstream propaganda outlets like BBC, CNN, CBS. They aren’t trying to inform you, they are misleading you into believing whatever they want you to believe. So to find the truth you need to see things from different perspectives and figure it out for yourself.

            • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              What do the BBC, CNN, and CBS have to do with the authenticity of your post here on Lemmy?

              Funny how you say your post is equivalent to CNN or CBS and then immediately say the intention of those companies is to deceive people, which implies that this is your intention as well. You’re saying the quiet part out loud.

              • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
                95·
                1 year ago

                I’m not saying it about the post though, that’s your interpretation. I’m saying RT is as much a propaganda outlet as BBC, CNN, CBS, etc. So do not believe them outright, do your own due diligence.

                • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  But the RT content is your post and you’ve been defending it with little more than whataboutism about ‘western media being propaganda.’ What due diligence have you done here? Seems like you only believe it to be true because you want to believe it’s true otherwise you would be using facts and reasoning to make an argument rather than linking to TikTok videos about how corrupt CNN is.

    • Stench5692@artemis.camp
      143·
      1 year ago

      Your mind is so open your brain fell out, and now you’re posting bootlicking propaganda for an authoritarian waging a genocidal war.

      You’re a fucking joke bud.

      • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
        123·
        1 year ago

        I’m not telling you to believe what he says. RT shouldn’t be trusted and neither should BBC, CNN, and other US propaganda outlets. The only way to learn the truth is looking at both perspectives and using critical thinking.