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- world@lemmy.world
When Friedrich Merz became Germany’s chancellor this year, he promised to revive a moribund economy, rebuild the nation’s neglected infrastructure and making the country relevant on the global stage again. His failure to deliver on many of these core issues has not only helped energize far-right parties like the Alternative for Germany
Merz also caused confusion at an October meeting of European Union leaders, when he incorrectly reported a trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc had been concluded. He later brushed off the mistake as a minor issue.
You know your wild assertion might be more convincing if the sources from this user weren’t noted Western sources like The Economist Bloomberg and the New York Times.
It’s not only the sources’ reputation that matters, it’s also the individual articles one chooses to share.
Still only posting good news (regardless of source) for entity A and only bad news (regardless of source) for entity B will skew the opinion of the reader to entity A. And that was what was mentioned.