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Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when it concerns, well, humans.

To this end, we’ve created a media bias bot, which we hope will keep everyone informed about WHO, not just the WHAT of posted articles. This bot uses Media Bias/Fact Check to check context comments and adds a simple reply to show bias. We feel this is especially important with the US Election coming up. The bot will also provide links to Ground.News, as well, which we feel is a great source to determine the WHOLE coverage of a given article and/or topic.

As always feedback is welcome, as this is a active project which we really hope will benefit the community.

Thanks!

FHF / LemmyWorld Admin team 💖

PlantJam ,

After seeing the comment on a few posts, the length is really bothering me. I don’t want to block the bot since it’s useful information. What about a single line of text with a link to “read more”?

Example with explanations:

404 Media is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check. (change Media Bias Fact Check to a link that goes to a post explaining what they do, the reason for the bot, and a link to their donation page)

Check the bias and credibility of this article on ground.news. (change “this article” to be a link instead of displaying link in plain text)

How it might look:

404 Media is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check.

Check the bias and credibility of this article on ground.news.

PlantJam ,

Another idea. What about not posting the comment when the rating is “high credibility”?

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

Very cool. I would also recommend Wikipedia’s perennial news list as a source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Perennial_sources

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

It will be a little bit difficult to automate fetching that list.

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

Could just hardcode it and let the community voice their opinions on additions/changes

While I think the current method is a great idea, there’s already people complaining

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

But then the issue arises what the people complain, the human bias.

Because the user x from instance b accuses the user y from instance a be a bigot because they added SomeRandomNewsPage as biased into there. And it repeats and repeats.

So we chose to use the available option to use MBFC and ground.news for 2 seperate options.

We all know the downside of a human maintained list / service (like MBFC) because you can not remove the human part.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

It’s an interesting suggestion, however, I can see a few potential challenges:

  • The methodology is determined by Wikipedia editors’ consensus alone. It’s unclear what the ultimate basis for inclusion/exclusion may be, or whether there is a uniform standard applied.
  • The list is far less comprehensive than MBFC and other rating sites.
  • The scope/purpose of the Wikipedia list is very different from ours. Although we are both ultimately interested in factual, verifiable truth, news/current event aggregation is not the same purpose as encyclopedic archiving.
  • The list is sometimes too granular, and sometimes too broad to be useful for live content moderation. For example, some sources are categorized differently based on the type of content, and others are grouped together.

We would want to discuss and navigate these issues prior to incorporating this list into our communities.

solrize , (edited )

Putting some site in charge of determining what news is valid just means that site controls the bias. I like the wide mix that we get now. Partisan commenters are more of a problem than bias in the sources. It’s best when there are informed commenters who point out issues. Sometimes we have them, though not always.

PlantJam ,

The “footer” section is very long, and the spoiler tags don’t seem to do anything on the Boost app. This makes the bot comment take up an entire screen on mobile.

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah that is sadly bad implemented on the apps.

We put the “footer” that could go into a spoiler into a spoiler.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Awesome addition!

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot ,

Ground News Media Bias Fact Check Credibility: [High] (Click to view Full Report)### Ground News is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check. > Bias: Least Biased
> Factual Reporting: Mostly Factual
> Country: Canada
> Full Report: mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/
Check the bias and credibility of this article on Ground.News:

Media Bias/Fact Check Media Bias Fact Check Credibility: [High] (Click to view Full Report)### Media Bias/Fact Check is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check. > Bias: Least Biased
> Factual Reporting: Very High
> Country: United States of America
> Full Report: mediabiasfactcheck.com
Check the bias and credibility of this article on Ground.News:

Media Bias/Fact Check Media Bias Fact Check Credibility: [High] (Click to view Full Report)### Media Bias/Fact Check is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check. > Bias: Least Biased
> Factual Reporting: Very High
> Country: United States of America
> Full Report: mediabiasfactcheck.com
Check the bias and credibility of this article on Ground.News:

Media Bias Fact Check is a fact-checking website that rates the bias and credibility of news sources. They are known for their comprehensive and detailed reports.

Thanks to Media Bias Fact Check for their access to the API.
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Mora ,

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catloaf ,

Does this consider the bias of who runs MBFC?

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

Its a human. Like every page.

catloaf ,

So no?

clearedtoland ,

Love this! There are a couple of extensions that do similar around the web but something similar for social circles was missing. Great solution.

JimSamtanko ,

This is awesome. Thank you!

Gullible ,

Just testing how many checks it makes and on what and where. Not sure what triggers it or where.

news.sky.com/…/junior-doctors-offered-20-pay-rise…

News.sky.com

reuters.com/…/fighting-rages-displaced-gazans-str…

reuters.com/…/lebanon-braces-israeli-retaliation-…

Edit: forgot to say, thank you!

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

It triggers on posts, not on comments.

The_Picard_Maneuver ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

This is awesome!

ryan213 ,
@ryan213@lemmy.ca avatar

Excellent work, admins!

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for putting this into place!

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