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I'm gonna be Left-Center on this with reliable credibility that the bot is useless at best.
It is reporting on the source, not the content, of what is posted which is already going to be a problem for discourse.
If there are media sources that are known or proven to be a problem, I would find it preferable the bot just alert that and ignore anything else.
I appreciate the joke lol. But on a serious note, it sounds like you’re saying it’s not actually 100% useless, just that it’s being deployed too widely. Any specific suggestions on what the bot should say on those questionable sources?
My main issue is that it doesn't provide any real value.
If I see a Guardian/BBC news article about international events, I'll give it a lot of trust. But when it's talking about England, my eyebrows are raised. Calling it Left/right/center doesn't help a reader understand that.
Worse it hot garbage like The Daily Mail. They have no fact check or provide real journalism. It means nothing to me what it aligns to.
Then the bottom of the barrel is some random news site that was spun up a month ago like Freedom Patriot News. Of course we know where it lands in the political spectrum. But it's extreme propaganda.
The challenge here is that trust has become subjective. Conservatives don't trust CNN. Democrats don't trust Fox News. It becomes difficult to rate the quality of the organization in a binary way.
Current ownership and governance of the media outlet, generally speaking. Noting if an outlet is state owned or public traded, etc might help.
Does the bot even tell the difference between an opinion piece and investigative journalism?
If a source is a proven misinformation generator then noting the proof with direct links to evidence, cases, rulings, etc. However those sources tend to disappear quickly and are constantly being generated. It is whack a mole and generates an endlessly outdated list.
The problem is it likely isn't any information a bot can just scoop up and relay, and instead requires research and human effort.
MBFC does link to articles that are examples of misinformation. And no, the bot cannot tell if something is an opinion piece or not.
Interesting suggestion about state-owned media, hadn’t heard that before. Thanks for that