Could we have a rule that prohibits commenting about Media Bias Fact Check? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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It pops up all the time, it's a waste of time and I'm sure it has been used countless of times to discard some piece of information. It doesn't add up anything productive to the comments, people who comment don't even say anything they actually think they just "did you know that MBFC says this so it has to be truth?" I could go on but I think you get the idea.

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[-] porcoesphino@mander.xyz -4 points 3 months ago

at least 4 or 5 examples of people doing these lazy strawmen.

I missed these. Where were the links to past comments? Or are you counting generic arguments, because those don't paint a very clear picture so I didn't count them. And they seemed very much like the same argument with different words: for some reason they imply sources in towards the centre of the political spectrum are without bias and for some reason that means people don't read them critically when this is pointed out.

I will create my own media bias fact fuck, and everything that's not lefty is considered biased.

I get that from what I guess your views are but it's also not particularly equivalent. Especially for the US media landscape and for better or worse a lot of these checks seem to have their roots there.