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Media Bias / Fact Check bot declares itself as unreliable (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They added a line to the bot that includes Wikipedia’s stance on a source. And Wikipedia doesn’t consider MBFC to be reliable, so the bot reports that.

If you scroll below that, MBFC rates themselves as maximally reliable, which I’m sure is based off of a rigorous and completely neutral assessment.

Edit: although, reading the links in question they don’t seem to correspond to what the bot is saying. Perhaps this is some sort of mistake in how it was coded.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not a mistake, just confusing UX. The text in question comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBFC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It doesn’t though. Or at least, I didn’t see anything resembling that on that page. If you can find it, let me know. It’s possible I missed it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The text comes from this table.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, it seems to me like it should link here rather than to the main article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

sorry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBFC. that's what i get for attempting type a link out on mobile