The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC
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That seems like important nuance for sure.
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Wow, I decided I would give MBFC a shot. You are greeted with an ad-infested experience with a giant start bar reminiscent of a malware site. After building up enough courage to click it I discovered it not only wanted my email but also my credit card.
After having to fight to see the article I wanted rated I just don't have the fortitude to the fight this horrible experience to probably be told that the following article is left center or left leaning bias.
While I will admit this was a not Fox News praising the Trump Admin, it has an extremely neutral tone and does nothing to pushback against the obviously clownish message that the Trump team provides.
For this reason it, is to me at least, right leaning. I guess I will never know what MBFC would rate it.
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Firefox and ublock are your friend.
This site doesn't rate articles. It rates news sources. So you just have to look up what they rated the post as.
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MBFC does the opposite of elevate conversations. It's quite frankly a poison pill for conversations. People will apply their prejudices and alter their interpretations based on the 'bias check', typically before or instead of any critical thinking or ant article.
The last time the MBFC bot was going the user pushing it was very clearly aware of this dynamic. They also knew it was lumping everything to website source, despite authors and opinion pieces, for maximum damage.
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MBFC is bad. It supports the American overton window, which is, you know, now openly fascist.
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Ground News makes you think American conservatives are centrists.
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you likely won't find an unbiased opinion regarding that here. Members tend not to be able to do their own research and only live to complain about the existence of it.
I share the same opinion as yours, I would rather have a sometimes inaccurate listing than no listing at all. The complaints people have about it are what I enjoy using it for, it lets me know to look for certain things on the article before I enter so I know if I should take it with a grain of salt or not.
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It probably rates the NSDAP as leftist since it has socialist in its name.
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reminiscent of a malware site
Well, that's because it is malware.
it, is to me at least, right leaning
It's not right leaning.
It's disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.
It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.
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Members tend not do their own research and only live to complain about the existence of it.
But then
lets me know to look for certain things on the article before I enter so I know if I should take it with a grain of salt or not.
You are talking about yourself in the first sentence.
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Imagine thinking CNN is center-left
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Impressive post count??
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Ok well nothing as impressive as yours. Averaging 15 posts a day for the last 19 months is a full time job.
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I’m against MBFC for many reasons but it isn’t actually malware. It’s a shitty site that wants your info and has dark patterns galore, but it isn’t malware.
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is there an open source, decentralized alterntative to MBFC ?
I can't find one.
https://alternativeto.net/software/media-bias-fact-check/?license=opensource
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It has malicious intent, therefore it's malware.
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These comments have made me very curious if that exists or how that might be designed.
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That’s not what malware means and you know it. Again, I don’t like MBFC. I don’t support or use then at all. But malware is a specific thing. Let’s stick to the facts as the facts about them are bad enough on their own.
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No. And there never should be. And here's why. Bear with me for a moment but consider this. Part of the problem with this sort of thing is that people want their hands held. They want to be told what to think. Not to think critically for themselves. No matter how well intentioned. Such systems will always be sought to be abused. To manipulate people and their opinions. And at best they will always be subject to bias and blindness. The truly keep them from ever being universally useful.
Basic training and education in critical thinking skills will be far more to help people. Than relying on an app no matter how well intentioned to tell them how to think about something.
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These are all valid points but they don't preclude the existence of an open-source alternative to MBFC, which is what the commenter you replied to was asking.
