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I lost all confidence in it when it rated Jerusalem Post and Euronews (associated with Viktor Orban) as “highly reliable”. Both push the pro-fascist narratives of their associated governments. It’s better to have no labeling than to label fascist propaganda as “highly reliable”

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Any the branding of anything that is impartial as left center?? Like BBC News, Axios, Yahoo News, Sports Illustrated, left center??

And then the fucking economist which supported the UK conservatives not long ago and supported Bush is branded as left center

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- zazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Same reason I don’t trust it - imagine rating fking BBC (the literal pro-state violence, austerity supporting, anti-immigration governmental mouth piece as “left-center”)
  
  It just distorts people’s perception of what political biases are and makes them complacent by relying on an automated bot to do the important work of using your own judgment for what constitutes as moral or justified.
  
  By letting it platform itself on lemmy, it’s basically inserting itself as the de facto expert on the topic - so for example, people overseas might see BBC rated as left-center and highly factual and start believing that wanting to “secure your borders” is a thing that UK leftist want. Well excuse me if I don’t want a privately owned (even if open source) US company deciding what political views others should have.
  
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  - otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    imagine rating fking BBC (the literal pro-state violence, austerity supporting, anti-immigration governmental mouth piece as “left-center”)
    
    I believe it uses the American standard where anything based in reality is left of “center”, lol
    
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PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Fucking hell even Euronews is controlled by Orbán? Ffs there is truly no free media here other than RTL.

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- PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Any thoughts on TLDR (Youtube channel)?
  
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  - gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I think they’re pretty decent. Some More News is good too.
    
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  - PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I consistently watch them. Although sometimes they commit some mistakes, but they output pretty decent an easy to digest videos.
    
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