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 💖

  • @CarroladeEnglish
    -7•5 months ago

    That won’t quite qualify.

    Dozens of babies were brutally murdered — some even decapitated — by Hamas terrorists inside a kibbutz in southern Israel during Saturday’s shocking assault on Israeli civilians, according to journalists who were let in to see the aftermath of the massacre and corroborated by the Israeli Defense Forces

    The key is that according to journalists part. If the sources lied to the outlet, then the sources lied. This is not the fault of the outlet, and does not mean they shouldn’t have reported it. That said, that probably does deserve a retraction.

    To fail a fact check, you have to publish something known at the time to be misleading. Otherwise it’s a mistake, and should just be corrected when more accurate information arises.

    I am disappointed that the article has not been corrected by now, however.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•5 months ago

      They failed an Al Jazeera fact check because they published an article using data from the South African government that was later updated long after the article.

      So yeah, it qualifies to this trash tier site.