• squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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    7 months ago

    The way I read the article, it does not give a precise answer, but it provides a strong hint in two different paragraph:

    NewsGuard, which rates the quality and trustworthiness of news sites, has identified 1,197 pink slime sites operating in the US as of April 1…
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    Of the pink slime outlets identified by researchers, the largest is the conservative-leaning Metric Media, which consists of about 1,000 local titles, according to the website for its parent company.

    So yeah, if the researchers identified some ~1200 sites and one right-wing news network claims to operate 1000 all on its own, then there has to be a very obvious dominance of right-wing “pink slime” news outlets.

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        7 months ago

        Honestly, if you had not asked the question, I would not have gone back and checked. The writers could definitely had made this more obvious, but I assume the Financial Times did not want to make the direct connection there themselves.