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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

MBFC is just some zionists blog site, it has no connection with journalistic integrity.

I could create a site called "world's official bias and impartiality meter", and do my own rankings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-83-the-unchecked-conservative-ideology-of-us-medias-fact-check-verticals

I can do it too. MBFC is a hack website that equivocates between centrism and lack of bias. See this arbitrarily picked page for an example. See that graphic, the very first thing beneath the title? It's giving the game away right there, with a left-right spectrum where the center is "least biased". What about a centrist bias? Doesn't exist, and the closer you get to centrist, the less "biased" you are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m tempted to just laugh at mbfc being used as a gotcha, but I’m still bummed that it got this much cultural inertia behind it. It’s sort of like quoting an uncited Wikipedia article at someone to prove you’re right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

World has a stupid bot for it now and ignores anyone that points out it's flaws