Battles rage in Russia as Kremlin struggles to repel surprise Ukraine incursion
www.nbcnews.com
The unprecedented assault entered its fourth day Friday with Moscow rushing reinforcements and bombing its own territory to try to contain the Ukrainian advance.

The unprecedented assault entered its fourth day Friday with Moscow rushing reinforcements and bombing its own territory to try to contain the Ukrainian advance.

A convoy of burnt-out military trucks, some bearing the “Z” symbol of the Kremlin’s war and appearing to contain bodies, sits along the side of a highway.

The video, circulating on social media Friday and geolocated by NBC News, doesn’t show a beleaguered section of the front lines in eastern Ukraine. It is a village in Kursk, across the border in southern Russia.

For days now Vladimir Putin’s forces have struggled to put down an incursion into Russian territory by Ukrainian troops, after a surprise attack that threatened to upend the war’s status quo and open a new front in a daring challenge to the Kremlin.

    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      224·
      3 months ago

      Literally every news site is left center according to them, is it a bug with the bot or is the site really that useless?

      Edit yea is a bug, literally every site also has high credibility and factual reporting according to them (or maybe not? Not every site does apparently, Idk what the heck is up with the site lol maybe it is just useless)

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        313·
        3 months ago

        No, it’s really that useless. The site is American-biased, so any neutral source is at least center-left by its metrics. And the guy running the site has an Israeli Zionist bias too.

        Like Stephen Colbert used to say on his show, “reality has a well-known liberal bias”.

        • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          113·
          3 months ago

          Completely. Calling NBC news center left is a real head scratcher, that bot is apparently living in an alternative facts reality.

          • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
            58·
            3 months ago

            MBFC is pretty clear with how they rank “Bias” and I’d say they’re bang on with NBC news. They’re also pretty clear with how they rank factuality and again I’d say they have it correct with NBC News.

            It’s also pretty clear that many Lemmings struggle with the concept that bias and factuality are different things. NBC has a slight left bias but is still factual. They rank Fox News as having an “extreme” Right Bias and they rank them “mixed” factuality.

            You just never see that because no one on Lemmy uses Fox as a source and if they try their post goes nowhere.

            • FelixCress@lemmy.worldEnglish
              111·
              3 months ago

              bang on with NBC news

              As in “left wing” in the USA so “centre right” in normal countries?

              • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                3 months ago

                Which is just a lie that the American corporate media sells us so we’ll forget that corporate bias is a thing too.

              • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
                13·
                3 months ago

                MBFC is very clear that they are evaluating from an American Centrist perspective. If it bothers you that much just ignore the “bias” part, the factual part is still very useful…unless you inhabit a world of alternate facts.

      • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        171·
        3 months ago

        It could be that any news org right of “center-left” went full fascist and doesn’t get any traction here but I haven’t been tracking that closely. It feels like a plausible explanation though. Newsweek is a rag, WSJ is straight propaganda now, etc.

        • atocci@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          3 months ago

          You seem to be correct, we just don’t see the others. If you look through it’s comment history though, there are news sources rated as other things like “least biased” and “center-right”.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
        51·
        3 months ago

        I’d assume that any news that is to the right of “left of center” doesn’t get much visibility on Lemmy. Maybe Lemmygrad or Exploding Heads are a different story, but I figure they’d sooner ban the bot in far-right communities than let it highlight biases.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
        25·
        3 months ago

        Literally every news site is left center according to them

        Lemmy has a real, by U.S. standards, left tilt so the majority of the articles posted are going to use sources that fit that. Additionally anything posted from the few right wingers that Lemmy does have aren’t going to get much traction and you will likely never see them.

        You’re asking if the site is “useless” but failing to ask the more important question of “Why is all of my information coming from places that have the same perspective?”

        MBFC is discreetly showing how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be.

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Yes we have a real left tilt, we’re complaining because right wing sources are being listed as left.

          • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            MBFC is clear that they are evaluating from an American Centrist perspective. Ignore the “bias” rating and just look at the factual rating.