The news mod team has asked to no longer be a part of the project until we have a composite tool that polls multiple sources for a more balanced view.

It will take a few hours, but FOR NOW there won’t be a bot giving reviews of the source.

The goal was simple: make it easier to show biased sources. This was to give you and the mods a better view of what we were looking at.

The mod team is in agreement: one source of truth isn’t enough. We are working on a tool to give a composite score, from multiple sources, all open source.

  • JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    Sorry for any confusion. We’re moving away from bias - that’s the goal, at least.

    News source being “shit” examples:

    • A Voice for Men
    • The Activist Mommy
    • Adams County Times
    • Akron Reporter
    • Albany Standard
    • American College of Pediatricians
    • Ames Today
    • Antelope Valley Today
    • Baltimore City Wire
    • Benton Times
    • Bloomington Leader

    I could go on, but I’m at work right now.

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      2 months ago

      Can you tell me how many articles from those sources were shared the last month? Because i havent seen many or any at all, but meanwhile i have seen Al jhazeera and other news outlets being called not credible without much basis. If the information shared on an article is not factually correct, you can write a message or edit the title so people can know it or even remove the thread if it can be harmful, but what the mod team here is doing is just absurd. The goal should be to get rid of the bot already.

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          2 months ago

          Thank you for confirming that having a bot leave a shitty opinion about how trustful that source is or not is not needed. Unless you are saying that the threads removed due to not having a reliable source is based on mbfc, which would be extremely funny and sad at the same time.

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      2 months ago

      Glad to hear we’re moving away from bias, I didn’t pick up on that which could have been my fault so appreciate the clarification. All the best with your work day.