• @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    292 months ago

    I honestly don’t understand why people are downvoting the media bias bot. From what I’ve seen, it is pretty accurate. Is it that people see the comment count go up and expect a human comment to interact with, only to be disappointed and then downvote the bot?

    If so, I’d suggest Lemmy/Mbin to not could comments made by bot accounts towards the total comment count.

    • @SoJB@lemmy.ml
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      652 months ago

      It might have something to do with their steadfast insistence on rating literal Zionist propaganda outlets that spread straight up lies that have been debunked hundreds of times over as “extremely credible”.

      Just ignoring reality like that tends to hurt the credibility of a credibility meter.

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        432 months ago

        And don’t get me wrong, I have a shit ton of gripes about The Guardian as a trans person, but rating its factual reporting as “mixed” while the NYT is “high” is either incompetence or an agenda. I think they bank on Americans not being familiar with what international papers are reputable.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          112 months ago

          Absolutely. And also banking on both Americans and non-Americans to be unaware of the extreme pro-zionist, pro-cop, and pro-establishment bias of the NYT as well as the lies they keep spreading as a result.

      • Aatube
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        32 months ago

        Wikipedia’s entries note that such outlets aren’t much credible.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        It might have something to do with their steadfast insistence on rating literal Zionist propaganda outlets that spread straight up lies that have been debunked hundreds of times over as “extremely credible”.

        No, that would have made it the most popular user lemmy has ever seen. I think it was because it was something that no one asked for like that one U2 album.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          122 months ago

          You think zionism is extremely popular on Lemmy?? What the fuck have you been smoking?!

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            You think zionism is extremely popular on Lemmy??

            certainly on .world

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              82 months ago

              Nope. Even on !politics@lemmy.world, the most Neoliberal community on the most Neoliberal instance on Lemmy, pro-zionist comments are few and heavily downvoted, as they should be.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                22 months ago

                They’re openly hostile to anyone who says that Democrats should not support Netanyahu’s genocide.

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  92 months ago

                  Not really, only the ones who say that you should withhold support from all Democrats in a binary election system. And anyone who says anything that can possibly be interpreted as such. And quite a few where they have to invent the nonsupport out of whole cloth.

                  It’s not so much that they’re Zionists, it’s more that many of them are pro-Dem to the point where any dissent against any Dems, especially the leaders, gets the same ferocious reactions as when you criticize the Mango Mussolini amongst his fascist cult.

                  Or to put it another way: apart from understandable election pragmatism, there’s a lot of people there who cares more about pretending that their “team” is perfect than about holding the people supposed to represent them accountable for participating in countless crimes against humanity.

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    42 months ago

                    Not really, only the ones who say that you should withhold support from all Democrats in a binary election system

                    I have never, not a single fucking time, suggested withholding support. That has never fucking mattered.

                    Or to put it another way: apart from understandable election pragmatism, there’s a lot of people there who cares more about pretending that their “team” is perfect than about holding the people supposed to represent them accountable for participating in countless crimes against humanity.

                    And I don’t give the benefit of the doubt to people who are willing to jettison their humanity just for their “team”. Particularly when they’re super fucking excited to get Dick Cheney’s endorsement.

    • @9point6
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      MBFC equates respectable outlets like The Guardian and literal nazi rag Breitbart

      It’s propaganda masquerading as impartiality

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      I honestly don’t understand

      Could have just stopped there tbh.

      From what I’ve seen, it is pretty accurate

      It’s not. It’s the hobby of a right wing Zionist masquerading as a neutral and authorative arbiter of facts and bias.

      For example, it rates The Guardian, Fox News and Breitbart as equally factual.

      Is it that people see the comment count go up and expect a human comment to interact with, only to be disappointed and then downvote the bot?

      That too, yes. Personally I have it blocked and get annoyed by there being no comments in stead.

      If so, I’d suggest Lemmy/Mbin to not could comments made by bot accounts towards the total comment count.

      Or just get rid of the biased and counterfactual bias and fact checker.

    • @Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      162 months ago

      The Bot is wildly inaccurate as other people have pointed out. Even having the idea of potentially one person verifying the veracity of all news media is plainly ludicrous.

    • @Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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      112 months ago

      I don’t like it because it’s placing an objective statement on a subjective matter. it’s also apparently run by a single person (which is understandable given what it needs to do) but I just don’t like the vibes that gives off.

      I think it’d be a lot better if it just stated objective things (e.g. where their funding comes from, the corporate relationships, country they’re based in)

    • @Stovetop
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      62 months ago

      For me I liked it at first but ended up blocking it after it started doing “more stories like” which revealed that it was clearly there to turn a profit.