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 add 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 💖
Excellent idea.
I’d also consider adding Ad Fontes bias checks for an additional perspective done with a different methodology, as well as just more coverage, as MB/FC often doesn’t have an entry for more niche sources. Ad Fontes scales itself more to the American political center, as well, so may be perceived as less inherently biased by certain consumers who may be more inclined to outright reject a single fact checking source for political reasons.
The problem I see with Ad Fontes, is that they’re very good with the bias scale but really don’t address credibility.
I have absolutely no problem with biased sources so long as what they are saying is credible. The Truth Hurts and all of that.
MB/FC doesn’t limit itself to just bias.
It would be feasable to get it for an alternative to MBFC, but so far i can find out, it isnt free.
If there is a public API that you found please let me know we will investigate on integrating it.
If all your endpoint sucks then so do your bot.
I had a bot on reddit a long time ago that would do the same with adfontes. I can’t remember how it worked but I swear I got a free.csv of the adfontes data somewhere. Sorry to not be more help.