i used to be a anarchist on raddle.me/f/china they link to a bunch of news websites telling you all the awful things china is doing it makes for good propaganda yet they just link to one news site to the next how do i separate fact from interpretation
i would say look into who is doing the reporting and if the site is just quoting another site. often news media will use other news media as a source so it can be important to track down the original because it might have no sources at all (or have sources that are tools of US gov’t)
for china specifically, it is important to get your news from people who actually know what is happening there. if you cannot read chinese, there is plenty of news media that comes out of china in english. here’s two sites:
global times
cgtn
China Daily as well, Ian Goodrum works for them
For non-Chinese news, I like peoplesworld.org
Same.
To add, @i_eat_soap@lemmygrad.ml I recommend starting with this CGTN docu on China’s poverty alleviation efforts