The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC
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That's really cool. Looks great too.
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From the test that was done with the bot that was not a good source. 1) American focus 2) too much room for debate on the ranking
Here some discussion on it https://lemmy.world/post/18073070 -
Right, I almost forgot about the rage against the MBFC bot that went on for like MONTHS lmao. Seeing it downvoted to hell was hilarious though lol
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Is this the same media bias checking bot that thinks a Murdoch media owned news site was left leaning?
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As a left-leaning Canadian, this seems crazy to me. There's not even a place for me on this chart.
It's crazy how normalized right-wing extremism is. Well, it doesn't explain the state of things in the US, though.
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I suppose we've got to keep at it until we're at a point where doing something is better than doing nothing. Where, of course, doing nothing is somewhat of an acknowledgement of the fact it's hard to do something right enough to be able to apply it to all posts and all articles and all that.
An analogy comes to mind: it’s like the difference between telling hikers they’re at their own risk and advising them to bring water, good shoes, and a fully charged battery, and they'll be fine. If you can't account for everything, there are arguments to be made with trying to shift responsibility back to people with either more general or more specific warnings.
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I agree that this is necessary, but we need to be mindful with the implementation. A decentralized approach might be more effective than relying on a centralized list. As you mentioned, a warning that encourages people to think critically and not take everything at face value is likely the best solution for now.
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I guess I had missed it the first time
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I don't see any comments when I click that link
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account age 1 year 8 months
LOL, not a chance unless you were straight-up absent that whole time.
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Do you have filter? Block community? Like politics
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Tbh I didn’t even mind what the bot was trying to do. I just remember opening what felt like every post and seeing dozens of lines taken up by the bot. I ended up just blocking it and cross-referencing with ground news myself.
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Try this other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24920368
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Can you give the rundown on what happened for us newer people.
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I also don't love that is has least biased in the center. Bias is a trait that is on an almost entirely separate basis.
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Relative to your impressive comment and post count, it appears I was.
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I blocked the bot as soon as I learned how. The ratings are a joke - mostly because of its American bias.
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ha, that's possible.
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that worked thanks
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Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.
The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it's over.
