Tankies, like all fascists, employ double standards because without double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Idk about the rest but RFE/RL is literally a CIA propaganda outlet. Even the consensus of wikipedia acknowledges this:
“RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body.”
Just find a different source.
When you quote your link, in its entirety, it’s message changes drastically
Additional considerations apply to the use of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). RFE/RL should be used cautiously, if at all, for reporting published from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when RFE/RL had a documented relationship with the CIA.
RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body. There is no consensus as to what subject areas require attribution. The scope of topics requiring attribution of RFE/RL should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
It hasn’t been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased and RFA is seen in even a more positive light, from your own link:
Radio Free Asia can be generally considered a reliable source. In particularly geopolitically charged areas, attribution of its point of view and funding by the U.S. government may be appropriate. Per the result of a 2021 RfC, editors have established that there is little reason to think RFA demonstrates some systematic inaccuracy, unreliability, or level of government co-option that precludes its use.
I think you misread what I linked. They are two different ratings: red (no not use) for older articles and orange (restrictions apply) for anything newer. The verdict that RFE/RL is biased is still current, as was confirmed by the 2024 discussion.
And the question remains: why link to RFE/RL when there are other sources covering the same event that are more broadly trusted?
