Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to read the feedback. All the best with your community fact project, I’ll keep an eye out.
Comment on Suggestion: Remove bias rating from media bias bot
Rooki@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hi,
thanks for your concern but for now we will continue this, but no worries we are investigating more alternatives to get a more wide spread information about news sources and articles.
We added a wiki page and ground.news link to the comment. We DO NOT declare that as the “truth of everything”, MBFC isnt right on everything and has its own bias ( because every human has biases ). Sadly there is no other “free” alternative with an API that we could query.
We are investigating in sort of “Community organized Bias / Fact check” but this commes with their own issues, because of it, it will take some time until we can say more about it.
If someone will make a community that make fact checks ( with proof ) we will implement that into the bot. ( If its taken serious )
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To say the least. That actually sounds mildly terrifying; it either opens you up to individuals’ biases being presented as the community’s views, or would makes the decision subject to whoever organizes a “louder” group to dominate the decision making. Both are rather alarming for a community like this.