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Media Bias Fact Check - Automation
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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I mean the data is all there for you to look at and experts who have looked at it have agreed it is minimally biased. If you want something that is unbiased, then you're out of luck, every human has bias. If you believe all experts are biased, you're also right, but they're way less biased than someone being paid to be biased. So like everything, you can't wait forever for perfection, and anyone who tells you they are perfect and totally unbiased is likely the most biased, anyway.
What data? They have a methodology but don't make any of what they actually complie for rates public.
It's a bias rating system based on 1 guys bias
The data is there, too. The data is there for every rated organization. It has the history and funding of the individual media plus links to related media organizations that are funded and controlled by the same sources. It has political activity and endorsements made by the organization. And it has a list of failed fact checks and other related issues which are links to external fact checkers. If you read the methodology, this is the data it uses for each rating and all of it is there.
They have that listed but they have big bias when doing the final conclusion and overall ranking.
As others have pointed out some sources mbfc don't like will have high fact checking with no failures, but then lower credibility ratings.
But the information is all there for you to make your own decision. What other outlets are there that have 0 bias? At least this one has all the info gathered and even if you take the ratings themselves with a grain of salt, it is the best source available at the moment.
As I mentioned above, there's no such thing as an unbiased person, product, or organization. You take what is least biased, apply common sense, and consume responsibly. No one is going to force feed you all the information without bias on any subject, even if they do their best to be unbiased. Expecting perfection or nothing at all, gives you nothing at all in almost all aspects of life.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/12623522
Who are these experts? Source please