Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThat’s not how that works. You’re assuming the people behind MBFC are operating on an objective scale, even if you don’t like it. But they clearly are not. This isn’t a case of everything being shifted to the right. They don’t abide by their own rubric. So there’s nothing left but whatever they subjectively rate.
A single arbiter of truth and fact is only good as long as it’s actually an objective source. Which has been thoroughly disproven.
If you cannot understand why it’s dangerous to rely on an unreliable arbitrator of fact and bias then I can’t help you.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
No, I’m not. I’m saying “If we know that they’re flawed, we can take their flaws into consideration. But if we have to look at each source independently, we need to do a new investigation for each new source”.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
By what magic?
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Many users here, for example, have described the lens through which we should view MBFC.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That doesn’t answer the question.