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The tesseract Lemmy app, has a little overview from mediabiasfactcheck.com (MBFC). It seems like a clever way to foster a healthy community.

If you click on the ranking you get details.

ranking details for CNN

EDIT: Sorry to stir up an old hornet's nest.

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC. Even if there are flaws, I would like to celebrate all attempts at elevating the conversations we are having.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wow, I decided I would give MBFC a shot. You are greeted with an ad-infested experience with a giant start bar reminiscent of a malware site. After building up enough courage to click it I discovered it not only wanted my email but also my credit card.

After having to fight to see the article I wanted rated I just don't have the fortitude to the fight this horrible experience to probably be told that the following article is left center or left leaning bias.

While I will admit this was a not Fox News praising the Trump Admin, it has an extremely neutral tone and does nothing to pushback against the obviously clownish message that the Trump team provides.

For this reason it, is to me at least, right leaning. I guess I will never know what MBFC would rate it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/federal-workers-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-says-so-what/

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

reminiscent of a malware site

Well, that's because it is malware.

it, is to me at least, right leaning

It's not right leaning.

It's disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.

It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I’m against MBFC for many reasons but it isn’t actually malware. It’s a shitty site that wants your info and has dark patterns galore, but it isn’t malware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It has malicious intent, therefore it's malware. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s not what malware means and you know it. Again, I don’t like MBFC. I don’t support or use then at all. But malware is a specific thing. Let’s stick to the facts as the facts about them are bad enough on their own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Firefox and ublock are your friend.

This site doesn't rate articles. It rates news sources. So you just have to look up what they rated the post as.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/

These ratings appear to b based on US sensibilities and not the rest of the world. So everything skews more to the left than it really is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It probably rates the NSDAP as leftist since it has socialist in its name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Probably considering it considers radio free Asia and voice of America news good sources.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

This site doesn't rate articles. It rates news sources.

That is an extremely important distinction! Thanks!

Edit: that wasn’t sarcasm. I honestly think it’s a valuable thing to know and remember.