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Don't upvote this thing until it's reporting correctly in a manner consistent with the actual historical bias of the publication and any relevant facts. Right now it seems to be an LLM that is "summarizing"; which LLMs cannot do as they are essentially very convoluted predictive text. This is essentially an advertisement for Ground News. A third party that is affecting the Overton Window. Who gains from a single source of truth in the media? It's not the reader I am certain of that.
(Haven't used Ground News but have seen some adverts for it)
I like the concept Ground News claims to be going for, which is just listing all the different media outlets reporting on a story so that the reader can do what they will with the additional context. I'm not as OK with media bias fact check, and if Ground News is trying to integrate it in some way on their service, I don't think that's good either. the whole point of Ground News seemed to me to be trying to explicitly NOT tell the reader what to think about a given article, and MBFC would undermine that IMO
Ground News's whole thing is they rate sources on a far right to far left scale and use that to compare stories. I tried it (the free version) and found it to be at best a news aggregator that gives you their opinion of media bias. In theory it sounded great, in practice I didn't find a whole lot of value in it.
What's wrong with media bias fact check? Is it itself biased?
It has a bias towards American Centrism and that seems to make left of center folks in other parts of the world very angry.
American “centrism” is far to the right of what any civilised country would consider far right, and accelerating further right every second.
Faaaaaacts
It calls the Associated Press a leftist outlet. It’s just shitty conservative propaganda that is attempting to shift the Overton Window.
It has the possibility to be like anything else, I cannot say whether it is or not. but it's more that I would prefer to move in a direction towards people thinking more critically about the news they consume, and MBFC is offering to shortcut that process, which I don't like
That isn't at all how MBFC works. Their methodology is clearly explained right here: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/
If you'd like to know who rated CTV and when it was last done you can find that information here: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ctv-news/
Honestly I'm really beginning to believe that the people bitching about MBFC (and Ground News too) aren't upset by some notion of a "single source of truth" but rather because their lies are being exposed.
Wait, I'm not sure I understand correctly... How is a CTV News article credited to Reuters an advertisement for Ground News?
The bot comment, not the article.