CIA shifts stance on Covid origins
www.rt.com
The CIA now assesses “with low confidence” that Covid-19 more likely originated from a lab leak

The agency now believes “with low confidence” that Covid-19 likely came from a lab leak

I shared the RT article instead of other articles, because other articles are really biased and act like this CIA assessment is the truth. While this article put in the first paragraph the “low confidence” part and actually talk about the factors that may affected it. Which is quiet telling about the shitty quality of journalism currently.

    • 000@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      24·
      27 days ago

      See for yourself;

      New York Times: C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins.

      Here is the first paragraph: A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        3·
        27 days ago

        So one single article out of the who knows how many sources on the entire planet you could have gone with was biased, so you went straight to the bigoted Russian state-run media.

        And the fact that you think a single NYT article proves your point is ludicrous.

        • 000@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          13·
          27 days ago

          Reuters: CIA now says COVID-19 ‘more likely’ to have come from lab.

          First paragraph: The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday.

            • 000@reddthat.comOPEnglish
              14·
              27 days ago

              You are hopeless, you want to just keep arguing without reason.

              The bias in Reuters is that they don’t show any potential factors that may have affected this and they don’t show in the headline or the first paragraph the “low confidence” part.

                • 000@reddthat.comOPEnglish
                  13·
                  27 days ago
                  1. Can you quote the part where I am “defending a Nazi.”.
                  2. What the hell does me as a person have to do with the post?
              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                3·
                27 days ago

                Nope. With reason.

                The reason is that you are using a source which is bigoted.

                You’re clearly fine with that, which makes me think you share their bigotry about things like Jews and queer people.

                • 000@reddthat.comOPEnglish
                  14·
                  27 days ago

                  Dear Flying Squid, read more to improve yourself.

                  Here is a good link for you to read: Ad hominem.

                  Here is a good quote from there:

                  Often currently this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion often using a totally irrelevant, but often highly charged attribute of the opponent’s character or background.

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                    4·
                    27 days ago

                    I love it. “I might hate queer people and Jews and Ukrainians and support the people who promote that hate, but if you bring it up, it’s an AD HOMINEM and has nothing to do with the extremely bigoted source that you have talked about repeatedly already.”

                    And your whole argument is now based upon two sentences you have quoted that literally have no bias in them.

                    I am not going to give your bigoted buddies at RT any page views because unlike you, I do not support bigots. But I am pretty sure that if I did, the obvious bias would be apparent.