Bloomberg headline: "US accuses Zero Hedge of spreading Russian propaganda"

[Pluvious]

Back in 2015 or 2016 I was a regular reader, but stopped after a starkly obvious change occurred with their stories and tone (my guess it had changed ownership).

They suddenly became totally dismissive of ANY notion Russia was interfering with the approaching election.

I did check back a few times later and they’d gone “all-in” on backing the Groper. So this accusation doesn’t surprise me at all.

#WeGotPlayed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/us-accuses-financial-website-of-spreading-russian-propaganda

Here’s another item from 2020 :

https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse

[ampm]

1. Wow

I did too. I also started seeing changes, I didn't read them as often haven't read them at all over a # of years. This was very right on.

[UpInArms]

2. I, too, noticed the complete about face in their articles

quit reading them then and have never gone back

[Ghost Dog]

3. Bulgarian...

... Among the various “crimes” of which I stood accused was posting publicly available information that revealed Zero Hedge’s ties to Bulgaria. While Ivandjiiski’s son, Daniel, lives in an affluent northern New Jersey suburb, Zero Hedge’s domain was registered not in the U.S., but in Sofia. Court records revealed that Zero Hedge was owned by a company called ABC Media Ltd, a Bulgarian company whose sole manager was Krassimir Ivandjiiski.

The Bulgarian connection intrigued me because Zero Hedge runs political news and commentary that “frequently echo the Kremlin line,” as a 2018 RAND Institute study put it. Among Zero Hedge’s most Russia-friendly fare were stories depicting the Mueller investigation as a hoax, pieces claiming that the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was staged by British intelligence, and posts asserting that the Steele dossier was a work of “fanfiction” by internet trolls on 4chan. Andrew Weisburd, a private intelligence analyst who has done work for the U.S. intelligence community, has found that Zero Hedge is at the center of a web of conspiracy sites with spokes extending out into the darkest fringes of the internet...

https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse