They're tabloidish disaster porn peddlers whose stock in trade is saving people from the hard work of thinking and analyzing with nuance and research-based empirical skepticism.

Some reliable youtube channels:

Perun, Insights into Ukraine for intercepted Russian soldiers' phone calls, Ryan McBeth, Russian Media Monitor, Russian exiles Meduza, TV Rain, chessmaster Garry Kasparov, Inside Russia (Russian exile Konstantin Samoilov).

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