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We need a bot that will tell us what the bias of the bot is.
It calls the Associated Press and Reuters leftist. That’s all you need to know about the bias of the bot.
I think the problem is with the whole concept. Most news organizations have more than one person working there, so unless the bot is measuring the bias of individual journalists it seems really silly. It presupposes that there's someone at the top of a large news organization dictating to the staff to make an article "more left" or "more right" or whatever. Sure at some news organizations (like FoxNews) that may happen, but I doubt that happens at AP or Reuters and many other news organizations.
I've seen many articles where the headline was incredibly biased (to get clicks I guess?) while the article was not. Clearly the editor that wrote the headline had more bias than the person that wrote the article who might've been a freelancer.
And many news articles don't have any bias at all. "Earthquake in California" is that a left or right biased article? I think it's neither. Even a quote from a politician, Kamala Harris said "XYZ" or Donald Trump said "ZYX" is it biased to report on what people said? It's a fact they said those words, is it biased to tell people what someone said? I think it's just treating people like adults who can read what a person said and make their own conclusions.
At the end of the day people have to learn how to spot bias themselves, there's no quick-fix-life-hack-work-around to skip having to build some experience with media literacy. Ground News or a bot or whatever will have their own biases, and if people are trusting someone on the internet to tell them what is biased, they've failed at media literacy from the get go.
It called a lot of tabloid trash "left".
These tabloids chase money and will flip for whatever gets them eyeballs.