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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

headline in google news, went to article,started watching 6 minute video re story, got served ,no forced, to watch no less than 18 ads interrupting the playback. do you know how frustrating i... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The headlines are ok, but I find the articles poorly written, not up to the standard of The Independent from years ago. Its political bias is also quite open (I don't mind, as I read papers from all e... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It’s not reporting. This paper twists what people say and makes inflammatory headlines that are pure sensationalism. If you hate the people they hate, maybe it’s going to resonate with you, but this p... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Because any topic regarding crypto sells they talk about it all the time yet they are completely clueless! Anything they say is usually about 7 days too late (even years old when they spread FUD rega... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Mistakes, bores and bad news

Although I find it utterly absurd that most of the reviews cite The Independent as being 'far left' politically - which it clearly isn't, I have to agree that it has descended into utter garbage. There is no copy editor, so even the headlines are misspelt, most of the columnists are awful bores, and there is an extremely pro-lockdown love of peddling endless bad news. Take into account that the majority shareholder is a Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer, and things start to make more sense. Unreadable.

June 9, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

At best a pseudo intellectual echo chamber ran by the extreme left.

A virtue signalling rag that represents a very small majority of the population which uses lies and poor journalism to stoke social fires and make divisions amongst communities far far worse. The headlines make you laugh though.
At this point I am sure it's primary motive is 'just to be a wind up'.

June 5, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Woke BLM rubbish

Not independent news reporting at all. They are interested only in promoting that woke BLM rubbish, passing off their news as impartial. A bunch of looney lefties.

June 4, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Biased

Biased, spreading misinformation, promoting Apartheid Regime. Promoting racism

May 17, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Embarrassingly bad

Poor standard of English, even lower standard of reporting. Virtue-signalling nonsense, time after time. I consider myself centre-left politically; this ‘news’ outlet is so far left it’s more or less in communist territory.

May 3, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Independent? Not now

I bought the Independent when it first came out because I wanted to read something unbiased with no political allegiance and for a good many years this is what I got.
I am now horrified at what the paper has become: a Marxist propaganda machine that seems to hate whites and love blacks and employs black journalists to write lies about racism.
The coverage of George Floyd was a classic editorial. Written by a black journalist it said how afraid blacks were of being killed by police. How about white people being killed by the police? How about blacks killing white police officers? How about black on black crime that kills more blacks than anything else? American blacks should be more scared of each other than the police. And turning into an icon a thug who spent five years in jail for armed assault with a deadly weapon. If he is your hero, you should die from shame.
The paper is now just a biased BLM propaganda machine.

April 25, 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Indie fobs complaints of its Racist agenda

Tried to make a complaint about the news outlet quoting a racist comedian as a supposed authoritative source but was totally fobbed off by the Independent's Richard Best.
He was blatantly defending quoting - David Baddiel - who had Blacked-up mocking Black ethnicity and invented the slur 'Pineappleheads' for Black Britons wearing traditional Afro-Diaspora locks & cornrows. Black complaints are simply deemed second class.
By contrast if you’re a member of a white ethnic group, doing propaganda for Israel's white colonial conquest and apartheid domination in the middle-east, then you can make unsubstantiated anti-Semitism smears about Black/Indigenous anti-colonial activists, with the Indy’s full support.
The Independent is just a racist propaganda machine.

March 30, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Would have rated it lower if I could

Would have rated it lower if I could. Often misleading/dishonest headlines makes dishonest and deceitful claims. No credible complaints policy.
It's aims seem to be to promote hatred and division within the UK.

March 7, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Disgusting journalism

Propaganda and total nonsense covering US impeachment. Coverage was completely incorrect as Democrats falsified evidence. I wouldn't purchase this newspaper.

February 17, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

you got to feel sorry for whoever…

you got to feel sorry for whoever published there recent article attacking the peoples party the snp on yahoo they even used the same photo the tory guardian used on there article attacking the peoples party the snp the polls are correct and just like the scottish rugby team crushed the english on there home turf the snp will crush the tories come the may elections smearing and attacking the peoples party will only create more and more snp voters the scots cant stand pondlife gutter politics and the salmond farce committee will not matter one bit to the scottish election result the first minister of scotland and her full team have been a shining light in the darkness of the kent plague if only the english had such a leader we would all have been in a safer place today but the dithering bungling bojo cummins and his morons controlled the borders and the purse strings limiting what our great government could do thats why independence is coming we will not be dictated again if we have another plague happen no tory government will stand in the way of the will of the scottish people nearly 125 thousand poor souls have lost there lives thanks to the tory governments lack of action and it carries on with nearly 21 thousand people arriving from all over the world to uk airports each day when bojo should have locked the airports down weeks ago the tories are in total chaos and many more will die as the result of bojo and his tories

February 7, 2021
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