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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I was happy to ignore it until the threads about it came up and the people/person running the bot demonstrated they weren’t really going to listen to negative feedback. MBFC isn’t accurate on political bias, but it is accurate on reporting whether a source is well known/reliable. The bot maker doesn’t seem to care much about that. That’s probably why people prefer to downvote it so much now.

    And, uh, I wouldn’t read any of my text here in ‘upset’. That’s just being silly.







  • Current ownership and governance of the media outlet, generally speaking. Noting if an outlet is state owned or public traded, etc might help.

    Does the bot even tell the difference between an opinion piece and investigative journalism?

    If a source is a proven misinformation generator then noting the proof with direct links to evidence, cases, rulings, etc. However those sources tend to disappear quickly and are constantly being generated. It is whack a mole and generates an endlessly outdated list.

    The problem is it likely isn’t any information a bot can just scoop up and relay, and instead requires research and human effort.