AIBU to be utterly horrified that the US has cut off military aid to Ukraine?

The Washington Post is an activist platform posing as a neutral one. You may as well quote BBC Verify as evidence.

RFK jr. on the other hand is of independent mind: a lifelong member of the Democrat party he became disillusioned with their direction, and stood as an independent candidate before finally throwing his weight behind the Trump re-election campaign. He has no axe to grind and is worthy listening to. Not to mention that - as the Washington Post article you cite mentions - the video in question is from his period as an independent candidate 👍🏾

No, they don’t. Newspapers aren’t allowed to lie. They can spin a bit but if they lie and are caught out they have to retract. They can get into legal trouble. This idea that we can’t trust traditional media at all isn’t helpful.

Newspaper frequently have to publish corrections

Newspapers do it frequently, nobody blinks. We're all being nudged. You can complain but don't expect the media to pull articles on your say so,

In all MY 50 plus years on the planet I have never read anything quite so patronising and based on very little substance.

FYI the U.K. and USA have been sending out of date weapons to Ukraine thus SAVING money on the decommissioning and dismantling of them.

FYI Putin is as greater threat to world peace as Hitler was. The only way forward is to stand up to him. Not capitulate and join him. That would be an open invitation for him to go further.

As has been pointed out before opinions are fine. Lies are not. You can’t present something as a fact when it is absolutely not true. That’s not an opinion. Zelenskyy has not bought a very expensive house in Florida, for eg, as was stated earlier in the thread. That’s a lie. Deliberate misinformation. I’ve no problem with someone being of the opinion that they dislike Z and think Ukraine should surrender. I disagree on the latter, and have no personal opinion on the former. But they can’t ’back up’ their opinion with lies. That’s not on and should be deleted.

I think disinformation campaigns occupy a distinct category. It’s not just about having an unusual opinion

Mumsnet is opinions though whether they be Russian Belarus or UK based. Mumsnet can check genuine, not genuine posters they can't block opinions even eyebrow lifting ones.

Yup. Which is exactly why I have asked MN to delete misinformation posts. They don’t seem to want to though. Other posters providing the facts doesn’t really help. The misinformation being allowed to stand gives it some legitimacy in the eyes of those who want to believe it.

I think that they're operating on the basis that if they throw enough mud some of it will stick.

"😂 God you're delusional, the absolute rubbish being spouted by the cult followers is astounding. Putin controls the election! If you vote for the opposition you're in prison, he arrests the protesters FFS."

We also know what Putin does to his opponents. Navalny died just over a year ago.

@Darker - no apology needed. I shouldn't have resorted to sarcasm!

I'm beginning to wonder if they're Russian bots.

Idiots are just derailing, refuse to answer basic questions so best ignored

Some complete idiots on this thread who shouldn't be commenting when they don't have the facts, know nothing about history, and are creating their own narrative. It isn't even a debate at this point.

He’s in a war. The Ukrainian constitution doesn’t allow for war time elections, much like Britain didn’t have any in WW2. Was Churchill also a dictator?

😂 God you're delusional, the absolute rubbish being spouted by the cult followers is astounding. Putin controls the election! If you vote for the opposition you're in prison, he arrests the protesters FFS.
You can't have an election when you're at war, what an idiotic comment.

Apologies. Too much heat on this thread!

I was being sarcastic. Yes, absolutely we need detail. And we need TV presenters to not mindlessly share videos as Gotchas without doing some fairly basic fact checking. I think that was once called journalism.

Actually I think we need detail. The polarisation of debate and the misinformation means that we are too wound up to think or speak clearly.

That's where the Washington Post has gone wrong. Too much detail.

It's a 16 minute read compared to a 4 minute video

"The Washington Post did a detailed fact check on that video

Archived link
archive.ph/Ffoxn

RFK Jr.’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test"

That's a fairly comprehensive rebuttal.

Martial law forbids elections in Ukraine

Thank you for this. I fear your facts are in vain (as far as our Forbes and suchlike reader goes), but still good to have them out there.