Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoI’d be happy if someone wanted to make a better site that had better answers and a more international scale. We don’t have it, though
Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoI’d be happy if someone wanted to make a better site that had better answers and a more international scale. We don’t have it, though
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bad information is worse than no information. It is actively harmful.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s bad information. It’s information that needs to be taken in with an understanding of its source…like most information.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s not how that works. People stop at the labels. If you want to change that then go after the public education system. That’s just like telling people to watch Fox News with an understanding of its bias. It doesn’t work. And as pointed out elsewhere, MBFC isn’t operating objectively. It whitewashes extreme conservative publications while listing organizations like AP News as biased. It doesn’t label American and international sources differently and it doesn’t tell you it’s labeling everything with their own concept of the American political environment.
For a supposedly objective organization it sure isn’t interested in self reflection.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Are you trying to tell me that it’s a problem to suggest people use critical thinking with the results of MBFCbot in addition to the post, and instead the solution is to suggest there should be no bot and people should use critical thinking skills for the post itself?
We already know how many people stop at the headlines.
As well, you seem to be focusing on the bias component. I think the reliability/fact-checking component is much more important.