No comments or anything, just lots of Downvotes.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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So the answers in this post are mostly that people are downvoting the bot because it is often wrong and then others defending it by saying “it’s not wrong it’s just based on American politics”.
If the bot reported from a range of sources that reflect a number of different political perspectives I’m sure it’d be more useful outside of the scope of American politics, and therefore wouldn’t get downvoted.
As far as I’m concerned the vote system is working as intended.
The internet is not American. There are no nations on lemmy ✌️
I asked in another thread complaining about MBFC if anyone knew of alternatives and nobody shared anything. Anyone got any?
Edit: Fuck me for asking I guess…
Some people have mentioned https://ground.news. I haven't tried it, this is not a vouch for their credibility.
They are using MBFC's bias rating too, with some additional ratings from other sources for a few publishers. Seems to have a strong US-centric view as well.