Security services say spate of fires and infrastructure attacks could be part of systemic attempt by Russia to destabilise continent


Security services around Europe are on alert to a potential new weapon of Russia’s war – arson and sabotage – after a spate of mystery fires and attacks on infrastructure in the Baltics, Germany and the UK.

When a fire broke out in Ikea in Vilnius in Lithuania this month, few passed any remarks until the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, suggested it could have been the work of a foreign saboteur.

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    Wow, I definitely didn’t expect that “Factual Reporting” would be “Mixed”, however going through the list, it shows several instances where they misunderstood either a scientific paper or misrepresented some fact.
    That said, I had before in some cases seen articles about AI being either false, misunderstanding the facts, or just parroting some CEO. I attributed it to AI being something relatively “new” to mainstream media, but this is pretty much eye opening.

    I like their “long read” articles though, but I guess it’s time to find a new main everyday paper for me…

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      Uh, other journalists have called it The Gruniard for years because it has so many mistakes 😂

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        5 months ago

        That name comes from typesetting errors rather than factual mistakes (and is also a holdover from the pre-computer era when spell checking wasnt a thing)

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      I think this bit sums up the reason for the rating pretty well. Not sure if I completely agree, but it makes sense to me.

      The Guardian has failed several fact checks, they also produce an incredible amount of content; therefore, most stories are accurate, but the reader must beware, and hence why we assign them a Mixed rating for factual reporting.