World Socialist Web Site

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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the website of the

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About

The WSWS was established on February 14, 1998. The site was redesigned on October 22, 2008,

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The WSWS supports and helps campaign for the

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Content

The WSWS publishes articles on politics, finance and economics, culture,

police violence, racism, war, media and information technology, corporate power, history, and labor issues.[citation needed
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The WSWS periodically undertakes focused political campaigns, during which numerous articles, videos, interviews, and perspectives are published on the topic. Campaigns undertaken include defending Julian Assange,[6] Chelsea Manning,[7] and Edward Snowden,[8] civil rights and free speech,[9][10] and the opposition to utility shutoffs and bankruptcy in Detroit.[11][12]

The WSWS described the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine as a coup backed by the United States and Germany in which the Ukrainian far-right coalition of organizations Right Sector and political party Svoboda would have played a "crucial role".[13] Furthermore, the WSWS criticized the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014 by the majority of German media outlets, describing it was one-sided and "anti-Russian propaganda". Thus, leading outlets such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit would have been clamouring for military action against Russia and attacking the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, "who is portrayed as a new Hitler and an aggressor".[14]

About the shootdown of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, the WSWS stated that "Washington has presented not one shred of evidence that Flight MH17 was brought down by a missile either fired by the anti-Kiev forces or supplied by Moscow". Regarding the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015, David North wrote for the WSWS that he was wondering if the United States was planning a coup to replace Putin with a "Western-friendly oligarch".[15]

Demotion in Google searches

According to

Globalresearch.ca, had received reduced traffic from Google due to changes in its search algorithm. According to the WSWS, between late April 2017 and the beginning of August 2017 its Google search traffic fell by 67%.[2][16] Google said that it had not deliberately targeted any particular website,[2] and Google vice-president Ben Gomes wrote that Google had "adjusted [its] signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content."[17]

The 1619 Project

In 2019, WSWS received considerable attention for its criticisms of the

Dartmouth Review that there was a "strange alliance" between conservative historians and the Trotskyists of WSWS, who he described as "old-school historians" following the data;[21] and Michael Barone in the conservative New York Post gave positive attention to historian Sean Wilentz's criticisms of the project in WSWS.[22]

Criticism

In an article for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Glenn Kates criticized that the Russian online newspaper Vzglyad, founded by the pro-Kremlin media entrepreneur Konstantin Rykov, had used an article originally from the WSWS titled "Obama Backs State Terror Against Eastern Ukraine" to project its opinion on American media in general. The WSWS was not cited directly, instead Vzglyad linked to Axis of Logic, a website that had republished the WSWS's article. Kates defined this strategy as Russian media citing fringe sources from the West and giving them mainstream credibility to support Russian talking points.[23]

In an article for the socialist magazine New Politics, the Lebanese Trotskyist academic Gilbert Achcar described the WSWS as "pro-Putin, pro-Assad and 'left-wing' propaganda" combined with "gutter journalism ... run by a 'Trotskyist' cult ... which perpetuates a long worn-out tradition of inter-Trotskyist sectarian quarrels in fulfilling its role as apologist for Putin, Assad, and their friends."[24]

Reason has said that a 2020 viral false account of New York University agreeing to racially segregated student housing was partially due to an inaccurate report on the World Socialist Website. Reason commented: "As a socialist publication, TWSW sometimes criticizes the progressive left for being preoccupied with issues unrelated to class."[25]

Maria Haigh and Thomas Haigh of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee referred to the WSWS as "generally considered a heavily partisan venue for real reporting".[26]

References

  1. ^ "This Year in Review: 1998". World Socialist Web Site. International Committee of the Fourth International. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
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    ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on January 13, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  3. ^ "Welcome the redesigned World Socialist Web Site". World Socialist Web Site. ICFI. October 22, 2008. Archived from the original on November 30, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2009.
  4. ^ "Welcome the relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site! - World Socialist Web Site". Wsws.org. October 2, 2020. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  5. ^ correspondents, Our (May 16, 2013). "David North speaks in Berlin on the 15th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site". WSWS. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  6. ^ Mazhar, Fatimah, "World's Most Widely Accessed Socialist Website Defends Edward Snowden", Carbonated.TV, archived from the original on March 5, 2016, retrieved February 20, 2016
  7. ^ Reporter, Ben Rosenfeld Daily Staff. "IYSSE members discuss Manning imprisonment following rally". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rape allegations: What's behind them?". Hot Topics. September 1, 2010. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  9. ^ Elliott, Tim (May 5, 2010). "Hunt was up against civil rights arguments". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  10. ^ "'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?". Salon. October 18, 2017. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  11. ^ "IYSSE facilitates campus discussion about socialism". The South End. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  12. ^ "Socialists to protest in defense of Detroit's DIA Friday, day after EM Orr tells business leaders he was once 'somewhat of a Socialist' himself". MLive.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  13. ^ Lawriwsky, Michael (June 19, 2023). "The Worldwide Success of Russian Propaganda". Quadrant.
  14. ^ Zubaryeva, Mariia A. (2015). "Аналіз інформаційної війни між Росією та Україною в інформаційному суспільстві". Informatsiyne suspilstvo (in Ukrainian) (21): 6–11.
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  16. ^ a b Tvetan, Julianne (October 11, 2017). "How the "Fake News" Scare Is Marginalizing the Left". In These Times. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  17. ^ Sheffield, Matthew (October 18, 2017). "'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?". Salon. Archived from the original on January 13, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  18. ^ Wagner, Laura (October 16, 2020). "New York Times to Staff: You Can Only Trash Colleagues If You Have a Column". Vice. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  19. ^ Mettler, Katie (December 22, 2019). "Five professors say the 1619 Project should be amended. 'We disagree,' says the New York Times". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  20. ^ "History According to the 1619 Project". National Review. January 16, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  21. ^ "Debunking 1619: An Interview with Phillip W. Magness". The Dartmouth Review. April 25, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022. You also had people from the far left jumping in. Some of the heaviest criticisms came from a website called the World Socialist Website, which has a Trotskyist Marxist perspective, but they're old school historians. These are people that bring a left-wing perspective to history, but they use a methodology that's rooted in evidence. That's rooted in factual analysis, following the data and following the facts and the archives to where they lead. So they give a spin on it that's very different from my own, but their evidentiary approach is very similar. So I'm in the middle of a very strange coalition. And there's also conservative historians that jumped in, but a very strange coalition across the political spectrum that looked at this thing and said, "There are defects."
  22. ^ Barone, Michael (January 25, 2020). "Scholars are eviscerating The New York Times' 1619 Project". New York Post. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  23. ^ Kates, Glenn (June 9, 2014). "How To Project A Fringe Website Onto 'American Media'". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  24. ^ Achcar, Gilbert (October 10, 2019). "On Gutter Journalism and Purported "Anti-Imperialism"". New Politics.
  25. ^ Soave, Robby (August 24, 2020). "Yes, Black NYU Students Demanded Segregated Housing. No, the University Didn't Agree to It". Reason.com. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
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