MintPress News: Difference between revisions

* {{Cite web |last=Sandlin |first=Evan |date=October 30, 2016 |title=Dereliction of Duty? The Left and the Syrian Civil War |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dereliction-duty-left-syrian-civil-war/ |access-date=April 9, 2022 |website=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |language=en |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417124020/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dereliction-duty-left-syrian-civil-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[news website]] founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012<ref name="Binkovitz">{{cite news|last=Binkovitz|first=Leah|url=https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/2012/03/mint-press-news.php/|title=Mint Press News|date=March 28, 2012|work=Columbia Journalism Review|access-date=May 20, 2019|archive-date=June 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624080543/https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/2012/03/mint-press-news.php/|url-status=live}}</ref> and also publishes the ''MintCast'' podcast. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, ''MintPress News'' supports Syrian president [[Bashar al-Assad]], and the governments of [[Russia]], [[Iran]], and [[Syria]].<ref name="JICJ">{{Cite journal |last1=Fiorella |first1=Giancarlo |last2=Godart |first2=Charlotte |last3=Waters |first3=Nick |date=July 14, 2021 |title=Digital Integrity: Exploring Digital Evidence Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies for Open Source Researchers |url=https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article/19/1/147/6320889 |journal=[[Journal of International Criminal Justice]] |language=en |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=147–161 |doi=10.1093/jicj/mqab022 |issn=1478-1387 |accessdate=April 6, 2022 |url-access=subscription |quote=These grassroots communities are particularly evident on Twitter, where they coalesce around individual personalities like right-wing activist [[Andy Ngo]], and around platforms with uncritical pro-Kremlin and pro-Assad editorial lines, like ''[[The Grayzone]]'' and ''MintPress News''. These personalities and associated outlets act as both producers of counterfactual theories, as well as hubs around which individuals with similar beliefs rally. The damage that these ecosystems and the theories that they spawn can inflict on digital evidence is not based on the quality of the dis/misinformation that they produce but rather on the quantity. |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105215042/https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article/19/1/147/6320889 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Rudolph |first1=Josh |last2=Morley |first2=Thomas |date=2020 |title=Media Outlets with Foreign Funding |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep26670.10 |journal=[[German Marshall Fund of the United States]] |pages=40–48 |jstor=resrep26670.10 |via=[[JSTOR]] |jstor-access=free |access-date=2022-04-04 |archive-date=2022-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404073403/https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep26670.10 |url-status=live }}</ref> It opposes the governments of [[Israel]] and [[Saudi Arabia]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Andriukaitis |first1=Lukas |title=Breaking Ghouta |last2=Beals |first2=Emma |last3=Brookie |first3=Graham |last4=Higgins |first4=Eliot |last5=Itani |first5=Faysal |last6=Nimmo |first6=Ben |last7=Sheldon |first7=Michael |last8=Tsurkov |first8=Elizabeth |last9=Waters |first9=Nick |date=September 2018 |publisher=[[The Atlantic Council]] |isbn=978-1-61977-565-7 |pages=56–74 |chapter=Disinformation |jstor=resrep30699.12 |oclc=1088564125 |author-link4=Eliot Higgins |chapter-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep30699.12 |via=[[JSTOR]] |jstor-access=free |access-date=2022-04-04 |archive-date=2022-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404073405/https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep30699.12 |url-status=live }}</ref> and reports [[geopolitical]] events from an [[Anti-Western sentiment|anti-Western]] perspective.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schafer |first=Bret |url=https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/978-1-61499-943-0-84 |title=Tracking Russia's Digital Deception - Analysis of the Kremlin's Information Operations on Social Media |date=2019 |journal=Challenges in Strategic Communication and Fighting Propaganda in Eastern Europe |publisher=[[IOS Press]] |isbn=978-1-61499-943-0 |editor-last=Sultănescu |editor-first=Dan |series=[[NATO Science for Peace and Security]] Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics |volume=142 |pages=84–96 |doi=10.3233/978-1-61499-943-0-84 |oclc=1104855741 |access-date=2022-04-07 |archive-date=2022-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702040914/https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/978-1-61499-943-0-84 |url-status=live }}</ref> In one contentious article, ''MintPress News'' falsely asserted that the [[Ghouta chemical attack]] in [[Syria]] was perpetrated by [[Syrian opposition|rebel groups]] rather than by the [[Syrian government]].<ref name=":1" />