From Watchdog to Lapdog: The Troubling Agenda of S Bunker

S Bunker masquerades as a watchdog against disinformation while colluding with U.S. interests, silencing independent journalism, and amplifying pro-Russian, anti-Kosovo propaganda.

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognise the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is who is to blame."

“What is the cost of lies?” Valery Legasov once asked in the haunting recount of the Chernobyl disaster, echoing a reality that extends far beyond the Soviet Union. In today’s fractured media landscape, where disinformation runs rampant, the danger lies not just in the falsehoods themselves but in the erosion of our ability to discern the truth. S Bunker’s recent article purports to address disinformation in the Western Balkans but, in reality, it serves as a thinly veiled attack on independent journalism that challenges U.S. foreign policy. The article selectively criticises non-aligned media while ignori…