Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds

zabadoh@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mbfc also calls hasbara rags like Times of Israel “left leaning and mostly factual”.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guess that’s middle of the lane for most people then.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, it has been quite dishonest at times

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was referring to the ‘strong left bias’ and MBFC’s own right slant.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The Canary very much has a strong left bias

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      mostly factual

      quite dishonest at times

      Yeah. You know the difference between ‘mostly’ and ‘always’ does allow for some ‘at times’ exceptions, eight?

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  MBFC is almost entirely created by one person (6 named on site, but 1 is by far the controlling authority).

  Nobody is without bias, but a large organisation of many varying views can temper it to a tolerable amount. To say that a near one man operation can act without bias though is ridiculous.

  To rely on MBFC to determine the credibility of a news source is like outsourcing your critical thinking to somebody else. They’re a hack organisation as much as the organisations they claim to call out.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Canary, while it doesn’t outright lie, creates strange theories and interpretations surrounding things. It’s definitely left biased.

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