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Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker bot?

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…

frog_brawler ,

It’s biased.

BradleyUffner ,

It’s too much noise. Its posts are huge and take up way too much space.

BallsandBayonets ,

It said MSNBC had a leftist bias. The bot, and by extension its developers, have as much credibility as your Fox News watching uncle who calls everything they don’t like “communism”.

ThrowawayPermanente , (edited )

MSNBC is left wing! I can understand objecting to some of the others but this one is clear as day.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

It’s like a guy showing up in every thread to say ‘this source is left-wing and/or unreliable!’. He’s right, of course, but as a general rule people are either blind to their own bias, or trying to influence others without it being noticed.

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