People hate shitty bot, lw admin triples down and is threatening to make it against lw terms of service to down vote it.

Taking bets on how long until it’s a confirmed violation to be against the bot?

Guess it may already be in the news comm https://lemm.ee/post/41044575

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    The rights of stupid users must be protected by MBFC, which clearly tells people that the CIA is trustworthy and unbiased (whereas anti-imperialist sources get seventeen Pinocchios because freedomrifle.com fact checked them and found that they contradicted sources they liked in an endless cycle and their claims supported the Bad Country^TM) so there is no confusion. This can be very helpful to stop people from seeing OBVIOUS PROPOGANDA.

    I found a particularly egregious case of MBFC lies here:

    The article they link that shows Electronic Intifada “failed a fact check” is fact checking a single person’s tweet, which references a video, and the article mentions EI only once in the main body, namely it’s linked as an article shared by the tweeter to PolitiFact in email correspondence to support his claim that the IOF killed Israeli concert goers, but this is dismissed by PF since:

    The information he sent did not include or appear to mention the video footage he shared on X.

    And the context he gave for the video footage is all that’s being ”fact checked”. The original fact checking article linked clearly says EI’s article had nothing to do with the footage he shared. But since EI’s article is included in their sources, and an idiotic reading of the title seems to say that PF is saying Israel didn’t shoot its own concert goers period and no footage shows that they did (this may be intentional), EI has been DEBUNKED. Liberal scripture!

    Oh and their rating system is completely arbitrary (cover for liberal end of history-ism).

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          https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/radio-free-asia/

          Founded in 1951, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting agency of the United States government that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while “advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy.”

          Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER

          Factual Reporting: HIGH

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            The Chinese govt sharing x website’s articles because they support their POV is proof of BIAS and PROPAGANDA LAUNDERING. The American govt.’s “news source” that is expressly propaganda for US hegemony is HIGHLY FACTUAL (we know because they said so) and only SLIGHTLY LEANS TO THE LEFT.

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          https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/

          Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates. (D. Van Zandt 3/4/2017) Updated (12/07/2023)

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            “For example, the article [‘Nazi genocide against Jewish population’] is emotionally loaded and one-sided against the [German] government due to its use of highly charged language and its singular focus on alleged atrocities committed by [the Nazis] without providing context or perspectives from the [German] side.” So on and so forth.

            Wondrous!

            Erm HRW (not a biased Western NGO) made a report (deconstructed by Norman Finkelstein) that weakly suggests this POV. No we will not include any evidence that suggests Israel is responsible, such as them bombing the cancer ward of that same hospital days earlier, an IOF spokesman cheering on the bombing as attacking Hamas, Israel misrepresenting Al Jazeera footage and their own as well, faking phone calls and video, etc. It’s clear from scale alone and the pattern of bombing hospitals that Israel was responsible, and this is where fence-sitting becomes absurd.

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              Yeah but it’s using that founder’s methodology so it’s good now.

              Guess what lw doesn’t allow as a news source…