Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when it concerns, well, humans.
To this end, we’ve created a media bias bot, which we hope will keep everyone informed about WHO, not just the WHAT of posted articles. This bot uses Media Bias/Fact Check to add a simple reply to show bias. We feel this is especially important with the US Election coming up. The bot will also provide links to Ground.News, as well, which we feel is a great source to determine the WHOLE coverage of a given article and/or topic.
As always feedback is welcome, as this is a active project which we really hope will benefit the community.
Thanks!
FHF / LemmyWorld Admin team 💖
Is it your position that criticism of Israel should be censored? Is being pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, or anti-genocide antisemitic?
This is the position of Media Bias/Fact Check. By endorsing their platform, you are also endorsing their radically biased re-definition of antisemitism that is being used to slander holocaust survivors and progressive Jewish voices along with truth speakers of all races and creeds.
Groups like MBFC use their position as gatekeepers of the political spectrum to disguise radical ideas as centrist positions, and it’s ironic that you’re using such a biased propaganda platform to tell your readers what is credible.
Bias is not the same thing as propaganda, propaganda is not the same thing as misinformation. Articles should be evaluated on how factual they are, and there are plenty of platforms that are doing the hard work of verifying information without putting their political ideology above their credibility. This bot is a mistake.
Unfortunately Rooki is not accepting criticism of this decision.
Lmao no comment from the .world Admin on this post.
Oh they did. Just to troll the user’s
You are making a lot of claims, but without any examples or anything to back those claims I am unconvinced.
I’m in the same boat here, commenter brings pretty bold claims with zero proof to back it up, especially concidering I looked it up, and so far propagandic sources that I know of all show low or medium credibility.
in fact the first 5 Isreal based sources I looked up all show little credibility as well. I am curious where the proof is
Another commentator brought up Mondoweiss, which is interesting. I don’t know that I disagree with MBFC’s rating, as Weiss has previously said some pretty out there stuff:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/
But I mean I’m far from an expert in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and in fact I’m pretty ignorant to be honest.
The comments in here feel pretty weird. At best, people are following a trend that I hate, where we are on a link-aggregator platform, but someone assumes that you already have all the context and refuses to post a link. At worst? Well there’s that guy threatening the mods that he’ll spam the community if the mods don’t let him have his way.
I’m prone to agree with you.
Also the person who’s threatened to make a Spam project I blocked, I agree that’s not healthy for the fediverse, I was going to request feedback from them as well regarding it but when I looked at their comment history they don’t usually give any info, and they lead to attacking the commenter which makes me think they’re more trolling people then trying to make actual changes
But still no alternative or improvement ideas. So i guess we will have to stick to MBFC if there is no one with any ideas.
Why exactly do you have to stick with it? I’ve not seen that explained.
Why do we need it removed?
sigh
I’m not playing your game.