A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Moscow while reporting from occupied east Ukraine has died in Russian detention, according to Ukrainian officials.
Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after travelling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report.
She remained missing until April 2024, when her father received a letter from Moscow’s defence ministry saying she was being held in Russian detention, according to Ukraine’s main journalist union.
The circumstances of her arrest were not made public and it was not clear where she was being held inside Russia.
The people who consistently downvote the mediabiasfactcheck bot should be banned. Unless they come up with one that is better, quit trying to censor it.
If you were to look at the mod logs it’s the same 7 people, repeatedly. That’s brigading.
It’s telling when only posts which are from right wing sites are not downvoted by the brigade.
If they banned everyone that hates that stupid fucking bot then there’d be no one left.
If my mechanic sets my car on fire I don’t have to be a mechanic to know that that’s a shitty thing to do.
Why would I have to program a better bot just to criticise the (shitty) existing one?
I just block the bot, because MB/FC is garbage.
Is there a better way to get a quick background check of a news organization?
MB/FC is worse than random, so rolling dice would be better. MB/FC & Poynter reliably favor imperial core corporate, NGO, and state-affiliated media.
I don’t know a shortcut to media literacy. Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent are good starting places.
I actually agree. I’ve never heard a reasonable explanation for the downvotes.
Because the information of the bot isn’t trustworthy. It highly prefers colonial and right wing media.
Dunno which one it was exactly but IIRC the guardian got a “likely factual” or something rating because a few years back they did a mistake and corrected it a few weeks later. While other right wing media get the same rating despite posting straight up invented articles and facts without corrections.
