I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion – let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it’s the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways…so really no difference).

What’s the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there’s people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don’t see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck…

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    73·
    1 month ago

    Mmmm yes everyone who wants to get rid of the conservative corporate disinformation bot is themselves trying to spread disinformation.

    Projection, that’s totally original.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      In America, that is not conservative in the slightest, unless you’re coming from a hard communist position. What’s the corporation?

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          1 month ago

          Yeah, it’s just owned by one dude named Dave, funded mainly through user donations.

            • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
              37·
              1 month ago

              Uh, yea, actually. When people complain about corporations, they’re worried about how shareholders, who have no actual emotional or long-term attachment to their ownership of the company, have no real incentive to actually do things in any sort of ethical, or even long-term healthy way.

              If they’re just going to sell their shares someday, why should they care?

              If someone is working on a project of their own, it’s much more possible for it to be a passion project, where they care about more than simple short term profitability. You’re just more likely to encounter ethical behavior once that fiduciary duty to shareholder profits above all else is removed.

              • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                6·
                1 month ago

                See that’s funny though because it’s just the other extreme. One guy is rating thousands of websites by himself?

                Although we know that’s not the case. Their website says there’s a team.

                • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  25·
                  1 month ago

                  Well, sure, it’s always going to be run somehow. Things do tend to be owned by people in our system. You could say it should be a nonprofit if you wanted, that’d be fair.

                  And yes, I’d expect a single person would be unable to handle the workload. In addition to reading and fact checking, there’s also the admin stuff, where someone has to run the website, handle expenses, shit like that.