Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when it concerns, well, humans.

To this end, we’ve created a media bias bot, which we hope will keep everyone informed about WHO, not just the WHAT of posted articles. This bot uses Media Bias/Fact Check to add a simple reply to show bias. We feel this is especially important with the US Election coming up. The bot will also provide links to Ground.News, as well, which we feel is a great source to determine the WHOLE coverage of a given article and/or topic.

As always feedback is welcome, as this is a active project which we really hope will benefit the community.

Thanks!

FHF / LemmyWorld Admin team 💖

  • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
    348·
    5 months ago

    Have you looked into who runs Media Bias Fact Check? It’s pretty much as opaque as it gets for a website that claim to have an authoritative list of biases for hundreds of websites. Just because it’s a meta source does not make it any more credible than any other random website.

    • Rooki@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1432·
      5 months ago

      Have you ever investigated every news page for its bias? With no pay? I guess not. In the end there is a human doing that manually.

      Because of that we added the ground.news search url, so that if you didnt believed it you can get other news pages thoughts on this article.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      618·
      5 months ago

      Have you looked into who runs Media Bias Fact Check? It’s pretty much as opaque as it gets I haven’t even tried to look for their about page or an FAQ.

      ftfy

      Not quite as opaque as it gets, certainly.

      • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
        302·
        5 months ago

        Media Bias Fact Check, LLC is a Limited Liability Company owned solely by Dave Van Zandt. He also makes all final editing and publishing decisions.

        Yeah, looks great to me.

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          320·
          5 months ago

          That’s a fair criticism. It is not opacity, however. The full real name of your lead guy is transparency.

          • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
            231·
            5 months ago

            How do you verify who these people are? For all you know it’s just a bunch of fake names on a page.

            • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
              221·
              5 months ago

              That’s true of all names. At a certain point you can simply decide to trust nothing if that’s what you want. Plenty of people do, though personally I think that’s foolish due to the pointless nihilism it results in.

      • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
        245·
        5 months ago

        I’m not talking about their source of funding but their qualifications in making claims with such broad implications. It looks like the pet project of some guy and couple faceless names who do not even claim any meaningful professional or academic experience.

        Here’s an example from your link:

        Jim resides in Shreveport, Louisiana with his two boys and is currently working toward pursuing a degree in Psychology/Addiction. Jim is a registered independent voter that tends to lean conservative on most issues.

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
          293·
          5 months ago

          MBFC is entirely the opinion of some guy and his team of mystery helpers.

          It’s pure garbage and one look into it shows how pathetic the biases are.