I am working on a way to categorize sources for ProleWiki to use. Western "fact checkers" are clearly biased in support of imperialism. Feel free to add sources or move them if they are in the wrong category. This page is for English-language sources only, but we can add other languages if we copy this page to other language instances of ProleWiki.
State media
AES
Media in AES countries run by the state or ruling party. These sources are generally reliable.
China
Cuba
Korea
Laos
Vietnam
Anti-imperialist
Media in capitalist countries that stand against Western imperialism. These sources are often useful but may be critical of socialism and/or have socially reactionary positions.
Iran
Lebanon
Russia
United States
Venezuela
Imperialist
Western media run by the capitalist state or intelligence agencies. These sources are usually unreliable, especially in relation to AES.
United Kingdom
United States
Corporate media
There is little distinction between this category and the pro-imperialist state media category as many nominally private media companies are controlled by the CIA.
Occupied Korea
United States
- CNBC (about)
- CNN (about)
- Fox News (about)
- NPR (about)
- The New York Times (about)
- The Washington Post (about)
Alternative media
Marxist-Leninist
Sources that are unaffiliated or run by non-ruling communist parties. Generally reliable. These sources don't have to be explicitly ML if they align with anti-imperialism and are pro-AES.
Australia
Canada
China
India
Thailand
United Kingdom
United States
- Black Agenda Report (about)
- Blowback Podcast (about)
- Breakthrough News (about)
- Friends of Socialist China (about)
- Liberation News (about)
- Liberation School (about)
- Monthly Review (about)
- New Spark (about)
- Peace, Land, & Bread (about)
- Qiao Collective (about)
- The Burning Spear (about)
- The Red Clarion (about)
- The Red Nation (about)
- Workers' World (about)
Asia
- Asia Times Pepe Escobar's The Roving Eye (about)Inactive since Nov, 2021
International
- Geopolitical Economy Report (about)
- Tricontinental (about)
- Pepe Escobar's column for Strategic Culture Foundation (about)- currently active
Other leftist
These sources may be useful for current events or anti-imperialism but are not recommended for analysis of AES. However, some groups, such as Hoxhaists, tend to support some former AES.
Anarchist
Hoxhaist
Maoist
Trotskyist
Anti-imperialist
Always read critically when using these sources.
Reactionary
Non-mainstream right-wing sources, including fascists and ancaps. These sources should never be used on ProleWiki.
Social media
Social media is not recommended to use as a source except in articles about online subjects such as people active on these platforms. You should generally use the sources that social media posts cite instead of the social media itself. Social media sources may sometimes be necessary to cover current events but should be replaced by better sources as soon as possible.