To be honest I have never dived into the drama and don’t read either of them. I’m just interested why they are hated so much in our circles, yet loved by the more right leaning ones.
the main source of most of the wild made-up bullshit you see about china, DPRK, etc. right-wingers love it for that sole purpose.
It is literally propaganda press. Full stop.
You can debate the biases and corporate control of media like CNN or RT or Fox, but RFA and RFE were literally founded by the CIA and receive all their funding from the American State Department.
This isn’t a hidden fact, it’s even highlighted on their Wikipedia articles. They also are known for making up ludicrous batshit insane stories with no sources, or their sources are anecdotal “from a friend of a friend”.
Radio Free Europe was also made initially to broadcast American propaganda into the Soviet Union.
“I’m just interested why they are hated so much in our circles, yet loved by the more right leaning ones.”
Not just for RFA/RFE, but the usual answer to that is “because it is madeup bullshit”. It is kind of why it has become a meme that any made-up story about communist states cites RFA as their source, if they cite anyone at all.
There’s no attempt made to even pretend to be real news, they just want to target the folks who treat headlines as gospel.
