New York Times - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for New York Times:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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Wikipedia - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Wikipedia:
> MBFC: Least Biased - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - United States of America
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The Verge - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for The Verge:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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Ferguson based his assessment on internal second-quarter figures recently obtained by the New York Times. According to this report, X booked $114 million worth of revenue in the U.S., its largest market by far. This represented a 25% drop over the preceding three months and a 53% drop over the year-ago period.
From when he bought twitter:
Mr. Musk has set some ambitious goals for Twitter, which he has said he will transform into an “everything app” called X. In presentations to investors about the deal this spring, he said he anticipated that Twitter would reach annual revenue of $26.4 billion and have 931 million users by 2028.
Uhh, not even close Musk. I guess he still has 3 years and 4 months to turn it around though. lol. I was told this man was a business genius.
Axios - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Axios:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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Not directly related to MBFC bot, but what's your opinion on other moderation ideas to improve the nature of the discussion? Something Awful forums have strawmanning as a bannable offense. If someone says X, and you say they said Y which is clearly different from X, you can get a temp ban. It works well enough that they charge a not-tiny amount of money to participate and they've had a thriving community for longer than more existing social media has been alive. They're absolutely ruthless about someone who's being tricksy or pointlessly hostile with their argumentation style simply isn't allowed to participate.
I'm not trying to make more work for the moderators. I recognize that side of it... the whole:
This bot was introduced because modding can be pretty tough work at times and we are all just volunteers with regular lives. It has been helpful and we would like to keep it around in one form or another.
... makes perfect sense to me. I get the idea of mass-banning sources to get rid of a certain type of bad faith post, and doing it with automation so that it doesn't create more work for the moderators. But to me, things like:
Blatant strawmanning
Saying something very specific and factual (e.g. food inflation is 200%) and then making no effort to back it up, just, that's some shit that came into my head and so I felt like saying it and now that I've cluttered up the discussion with it byeeeeee
... create a lot more unpleasantness than just simple rudeness, or posting something from rt.com or whatever so-blatant-that-MBFC-is-useful type propaganda.
It’s tricky because we could probably make 100 rules if we wanted to define every specific type of violation. But a lot of what you’re talking about could fall under Rules 1 and 8, which deal with civility and misinformation. If people are engaging in bad faith, feel free to report them and we’ll investigate.
I’ll be honest, that’s probably outside of the scope of what we can do for now. It’s definitely valuable feedback in general and I wish I could offer some kind of solution but that’s probably even outside the control of the instance admins.
Personally I’m in favor of the bot. One complaint I’ve seen that I agree with is that it doesn’t need to float high up in the comments. If it was simply made to not upvote itself, it would stay nearer to the bottom naturally, which I think would be preferable.
Tell the bot to never be the first comment. I find it very frustrating when I see “a comment on this post” and it’s just the bot. I’m here to read what people have to say so it is very annoying when I think someone said something and it’s just the bot.
There was even a front page meme about this last year, but with another noisy bot. Lemmy doesn’t bury new comments like Reddit does, so there’s no real penalty to making the bot wait.
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