Can you even point to a post where the bot calls the source out as propaganda (in whatever choice of words it would use to indicate this) or highly untrustworthy? I’ve literally never seen it say anything but left, left center, or center on any source and usually always highly trustworthy or trustworthy.
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Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months agoUnless your goal is to spread misinformation. Anyone that knowingly wants to spread propaganda is going to severely dislike it and be forced to come up with some excuse to be against it, that is more acceptable than “it keeps telling me my russian propaganda is bullshit”.
We do have a small pro-Russian contingent on here after all. We also occasionally get a MAGA type.
Personally I do appreciate it, the wikipedia and Ground News links are convenient, I would occasionally manually google those anyway. News consumption is one of the main reasons I’m on here in the first place though, so I might be an outlier in that regard.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That has more to do with the fact that centre-right/right/far-right sources are seldom posted to lemmy.
Here are some examples:
mediabiasfactcheck.com/goteborgs-posten/
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
I don’t doubt there are far-right sources out there, but the person I replied to stated that ‘people are complaining because the bot is calling out their posts as right-wing propaganda’ which I’ve seen zero evidence of here on Lemmy.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, it will not specifically identify propaganda. Could just check their entry for RT if you wanted, I’ve never bothered to look. That’s a Kremlin funded publication though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mmmm yes everyone who wants to get rid of the conservative corporate disinformation bot is themselves trying to spread disinformation.
Projection, that’s totally original.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In America, that is not conservative in the slightest, unless you’re coming from a hard communist position. What’s the corporation?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
MBFC
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, it’s just owned by one dude named Dave, funded mainly through user donations.
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
EXACTLY
This is why anyone vehemently opposed to it is an instant 🚩for me