To be fair, considering the right wing hellscape our (US) Overton window overlooks the bias bot might actually have a point.
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freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Its an incredibly pro US biased instance despite not being hosted in the US and having a .world domain.
Greatest hits are politics@lemmy.world forbidding non-US topics and of course news@lemmy.world and its bias check bot according to which every non US media is left wing biased.
Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh no. Just no. We’ve found more than enough cases of bias to call it unreliable at best and a cover for washing conservative sources at the worst.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What is this the third time I’ve agreed with you on something? See, common ground.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The bot posts in world news which allows non us news.
It not trying to criticize the right wing bias of political discourse it’s trying to normalize it and apply it to non US issues and media.
Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was simply telling a joke, but point well taken.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The bot is bad and jonsjava is a real piece of shit just by themself.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 week ago
God that fucking bot.
The bot itself is only mildly offensive, but the fieflord bot-love is just repugnant.
About a month ago news did a “feedback about the bot” thing, in which they declared undying love for the bot above all things and declared any input other than breathless support for the bot to be vote manipulated misinformation.
There were about 3 mods involved, all contradicting each other, and themselves, very condescending, and very sooky and sulky. “One of the mods almost resigned over this!” kind of stuff.
You had to start every comment with “look I know you guys are doing your best and investing all your free time as volunteers but…”