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People constantly complaining about the Media Bias Fact Check bot are more annoying than the bot (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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People complaining about the bot are worse than the bot itself. Every comment thread or post about it (probably including this one) inevitably turns into people debating the bot’s usefulness.

If you’re someone who hates the bot, do what everyone has already said 10 trillion times: block it.

All the comment threads and posts by users wanting to “take it down” solve nothing. Just stop. It’s so irritating having to scroll past millions of comments of the same tired debate.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Blocking it does not stop it's misinformation. I'm not opposed to bots or it's layout in a comment. I'm opposed to having a blatantly biased source masquerading as an unbiased gatekeeper of credibility. You cannot block that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The irony of a comment reviewing the bias of some article is that someone else will always claim that the review is also biased. It's inevitable and unavoidable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You can avoid that by at least being internally consistent though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So you’re smart enough to realize it’s “blatantly biased” but others aren’t so we need to get rid of it?

It’s kind of like Lemmy users don’t understand that this is a decentralized platform where you can connect to it and do whatever you want. The whole point is for it to not be regulated by any one entity.

The way you can “take it down” is by building a better instance (or sponsoring someone else to), maintain/manage it, etc. It’s strange to me that you expect your instance operator and/or the platform at large to implement blocking a specific bot just for you, especially when your account is basically on the default “how to use Lemmy” instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So we shouldn't fight misinformation? We should just cede that space to whoever shows up with a bot?

No thank you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So I’m no expert on the bot but it seems like the hard right crowd are the ones crying about it being misinformation.

You’re on a federated, P2P (as far as instances go) platform not expecting to find misinformation from a bot; meanwhile you got all sorts of “user” accounts posting fake propaganda every other post and real humans with equally problematic opinions but for some reason the bot that might be inaccurate (maybe because it’s a BOT) seems to be the breaking point.

I’ve said my piece, I’m not really so interested in this topic to keep drilling down endlessly. The whole thing is fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

it seems like the hard right crowd are the ones crying about it being misinformation.

Hahahahaha no.

And I call out those posters when I see it too.