I've looked at the replies to this as well as I can on Mastodon (i.e. I have no idea whether I'm seeing what you're seeing) and half of the them are not good. Basically, don't trust Grayzone: they are indeed apologists for China, Russia, and Assadist Syria: also do not trust most of the links that go off on Grayzone because those sites are themselves not trustworthy and label Grayzone as bad because they label anyone disagreeing with American propaganda as bad.
@richpuchalsky I am probably too tired to explain this well but I don't necessarily agree here: most of the people across time I've seen raise objections to GZ (not just here) are what I'd call credible leftists incl anarchists. IOW critique isn't coming from a liberal/US-foreign-policy good place; but rather from "just bc US FP is bad doesn't mean its opposite is good" perspective (GZ seeming to embody "US FP is bad so other empire must be good" persp often). But my q is abt specific link above
Credible leftists and anarchists do object to GZ, but so do liberal/US-foreigh-policy good people. I didn't look at the links here in depth but any generalized anti-bias or anti-fake-news site is a liberal/US-foreign-policy good site.
For this particular article, GZ's general reputation has little to do with it. It makes a claim about a specific person which can be checked by watching a youtube video of a mayoral press conference (which I didn't bother to do). 1/2
The question here is whether you think it's important that a professor at the university is working with the police. I kind of assume that every large university has at least one professor who is an active cop.
@richpuchalsky In this case the question isn't whether I do, but whether a reporter does. I wanted to share that info but felt that link was potentially problematic.
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