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How the Kyiv Independent reached 20k paying members – with no paywall (niemanlab.org)
19 points by dotcoma 21 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments




Ah yes, the "independent" news outlet that was totally not set up by the European version of the National Endowment for Democracy, i.e. the CIA's public propaganda arm. Also totally not funded by the Canadian government, also totally not aggressively pushed right from its inception just a few months before the Ukraine war by Twitter's algorithms to people who never chose to subscribe to it. https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/people-overestimate-the-us...

Nope, just honest grassroots journalism funded by regular people and not pushing any government's agenda.


Thanks for your comment and for the link.

But…

> There was nothing inherent in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which called for this specific response from all the specific nations who have chosen to participate in it

Really ??


Did the gp edit their comment to remove the quoted text?

No, those words are from the linked article by Caitlin Johnstone.

Thanks. Somehow I missed it when I searched.



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