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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot ,

Politico Europe - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Politico Europe:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - Germany
> Wikipedia about this source

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abfarid ,
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

Why is this bot always getting downvoted? It’s just providing information.

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

Because the information is quite badly sourced in some ways and includes a lot of caveats. And the moderators of the subreddit have not added said caveats to the bot message.

bstix ,

There are some who say it’s biased itself. I have not investigated it further.

All bots are annoying. They take screen real estate and lures me into otherwise empty comment sections. I should block it, but I haven’t, because it is sometimes useful.

It might be better if it only posted when summoned by someone.

HK65 ,

Maybe Lemmy could support bot posts a bit more organically, so they could be excluded from comment counts, or given a dedicated section. Eg. there could be a way to add this info to all community posts automatically.

TBH this whole bot thing seems like a Reddit holdover where people had no control over the platform.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

Nobody likes being told they and their favorite sources are biased, they think they’re the only ones who can see clearly and it’s everyone else who is biased.

acockworkorange ,

Personally, I like the bots but I want their messages below the human messages. And since voting scores mean next to nothing in lemmy, there’s no harm.

catloaf ,

It’s bad information. See the pinned posts for details.

Pringles ,

“Hungary, strong country. Run by a very powerful, tough leader. He’s a tough guy. The press doesn’t like him because he’s tough. Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, very tough man,” Trump said in his speech.

This almost gave me a brain aneurysm. It’s like the orange doofus takes two words and scrambles it in a random sequence of sentences while being incapable of adding extra information.

HK65 ,

The press doesn’t like him because he’s tough.

Orban is a bitch boy who never gives interviews to press he doesn’t personally own.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

But even if he actually was tough, it’s pretty horrible that Trump thinks that “tough” and “good leader” are the same thing. Pol Pot was tough. He was a guerilla fighter in his youth. He ruled with an iron fist and killed up to 2 million people. That would be “tough” from a Trump perspective. He would tout Pol Pot’s strong leadership.

FundMECFSResearch OP ,

In fact, if you need to be tough, it’s a pretty good sign you’re trying to force something the population does not want (oftentimes yourself included)

Treczoks ,

Don’t forget that Trump would like to “take care of” quite some people, too! And we know what he actually means.

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