I read their stuff, though most of what I read comes out of the weekly emails. There is some actual good content, though like all other outlets, I'm sure there's some bad. Here's some of the stuff I see on their front page right now:<p>* China's belt-and-road<p>* Venezuela (worth noting they were an early reporter on the aid-burning)<p>* Anti-Tesla stuff<p>* Anti-SEC, pro-Elon Musk stuff<p>* Stop Brexit<p>* Boeing<p>* China's massive debt load<p>* They still like gold<p>Yes, it's clear they have their own set of biases, again like every other outlet. But they don't seem to be super far left or right, and certainly don't seem to be "russian propaganda".
Whether Zero Hedge is trustworthy or not is a far less important question than whether <i>Facebook</i> is trustworthy.<p>Even people who want someone to censor social media should be concerned about who the censor is.
In line with this: [1] Senator Warren gets her anti-Facebook ads blocked, too.<p>It seems like Facebook just feels threatened by everything right now, and that they recognize that they're dependent on people being on their platform to stay alive.<p>I would like your thoughts on this: What has to happen to get everyone to migrate to a new platform, or is that even possible?<p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/blocked-ads-proving-her-point-warren-says-facebook-shouldnt-have-power-decide-what" rel="nofollow">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/blocked-ads-pro...</a>
We need gadfly news sources like ZH. We need people who take a contrarian view.<p>The only people who shouldn’t be reading ZH are people who believe everything they read. Those people also shouldn’t be reading MSM.
I wonder how many of the ZeroHedge fans missed the greatest stock rally of all time and are stuck with gold bars under their floor...bought at 2500USD an ounce from a website peddled by Glenn Beck. Just thinking about this I'm getting a smile on my face.
A lot of the comments here are missing the real issue here which is that while you may not agree with the content of ZeroHedge this sets an eery precedent for future Facebook policing of what is & isn't allowed on its network.
There is a ton of 'news' on Zero Hedge and many times I hear about things there first before the mainstream news sites which sometimes never cover the story (Yellow Vest protests in Europe, US taking gold from ISIS in Syria, reasons for what is going on in Venezuela, etc). You need to critically think about what you are reading and understand what biases the writer might have. I'll read 1 out of 20-30 headings and there is some absolutely solid content there.
Zero Hedge is the only site I've ever run into that gets zero checks on NewsGuard [1].<p>For comparison, InfoWars gets 4 out of 9 [2], and Breitbart gets 5 of 9 [3].<p>National Review, Wall Street Journal, and The Daily Signal all get full check marks [4][5][6], for examples of conservative sites with top ratings.<p>[1] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/1B10A8FE3FE38166041EF99B6BDE6C3DBB841FCEEEDFD4175C9CAF9BCEAB07ABCF99012502C3C4DC775C724D81F8BD39F653709C2AAD5B56?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/1B10A8FE3FE38166041EF99B6BDE6C...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/86BCB950AC90212617C8328B3BDC7B68B20BDD33FCD248691B93109E197C9F9E44BB50D873BA900AB8C95E905C656BA7E5440692C50C963E?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/86BCB950AC90212617C8328B3BDC7B...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/A7F7BCBA597324801963CA38B46F4E412279EF2B902F6DC69519BDCAAD2B71BAF9F8D5C50F7BB8F76C53E4F28607DA131F85A3448CB7BA9D?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/A7F7BCBA597324801963CA38B46F4E...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/5D044567246813D305EF4CFAC2D797885F0AD82B58B017BEAC4882842FEF7AF951596F1DE857E4E8478486785BD6092F5E928D82048DE090?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/5D044567246813D305EF4CFAC2D797...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/BBB6E27D9A686CF806D035DCEC50B4E8B75DA217FFC99423D0825D54D859A811DE4BB78A2523A95B1C3CD32E927C399CD597E709A757BD15?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/BBB6E27D9A686CF806D035DCEC50B4...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://api.newsguardtech.com/DCFD64CB17AE2BBCC342F9FFD70DB8938BAEE877072465D534DD5A9F1987AEDDE283C08E9B627EDC73D5AE161851EDFC7563BE2C45FA04C4?cid=44cf118c-b843-457c-9ee3-c373012ce0ab" rel="nofollow">https://api.newsguardtech.com/DCFD64CB17AE2BBCC342F9FFD70DB8...</a>
I was a regular reader of ZH for a long stretch leading up to the 2012 election and in my opinion their content is toxic and fuels paranoia. Lots of "end stage capitalism" and "prepper" type content. From my perspective now it definitely seems like the type of content that could be considered intentionally manipulative in a very negative way. It was very fear driven and I don't think that is healthy.
ZH, circa 8 years ago was half decent, lots of conspiracy nonsense but also lots of market rumours, since then it has become a Russian propaganda page full of nonsense.
Facebook, Twitter, Patreon have all been censoring right-wing lately.<p>This is just another example.<p>From my point of view, the left wing is calling the right wing nazis and trying to get them banned.
I made it to page two, and after reading about how apparently democrats hate Jews, and entitled millenials "the helpless generation" want the impossible dream of universal healthcare, I'm not entirely sure why anyone would die on a hill for this publication.