Welcome! This community is constantly upgrading and is a current work in progress. Please stay tuned.
/c/[email protected] strives for high-quality standards on the latest world events.
The basis of these standards comes from the MBFC, which uses an aggregate of methodologies, including the IFCN and World Freedom Indices, to rate the Bias and Factual Reporting of News.
These are non-profit organisations with full transparency of their funding and structure. Likewise, this community is also transparent – Please feel free to question its staff and the overall content of this community.
Does your post fit the standards? Check this thread!
Rules:
Disallowed submissions
~~US internal news/US politics~~ (Allowed while the Fediverse grows)
Editorialised titles
Editorials, opinions, analysis
Feature stories
Non-English articles
Images, videos or audio clips -- General Social media posts (Only Allowed during ongoing world events)
Petitions, advocacy, surveys
All-caps words in titles
Blogs
Old news (≥ 1-Month-old) articles
Memes/GIFs
Unlabeled NSFW images/videos
URL shorteners
Paywalls (Copy-Pasting the Article content or bypassing the paywall is allowed)
Commenters will receive one public warning with only one strike if violating any of the following rules:
Celebrating death/Advocating violence
Genocide denial/downplaying genocide
Disinformation/misinformation
Health disinformation/misinformation
Bigotry / Other offensive content Personal attacks on other users
The general rules of the sh.itjust.works instance apply!
Thank you.
todo list:
Automate a bot to check standards
Introduce tl;dr bot
Gain more moderators
I'll be editing this thread much later, but to make a very rough draft and tl;dr:
Visit Mediabiascheck, and post the name of your News or Source into its Search Function.
If entered correctly, the MBFC page for your News will appear, showing you its rankings on Bias and Factual Reporting:
Only posts within Left-Right Bias are allowed; aim for Least Biased.
Only posts that are High or Very High in Factual Reporting are allowed.
Still not sure? Try these!
BBC News
The New York Times
Reuters
Associated Press (AP)
National Public Radio (NPR)
There's a browser plug-in that can help you too: https://drmikecrowe.github.io/mbfcext/
And, similar site: https://ground.news
It allows you to look at a story and see all of the different sites reporting it as well as including a factuality and bias rating for the site.