Media Bias Fact Check, the source for the info the bot gives is not ground news. It’s one of ground news’ sources. They are not connected in any meaningful sense.
Also, it’s not an ad, it gives you all the information right in the bot for free and links to the site with more info for free. They aren’t encouraging you or even suggesting donating to or buying ground news or mbfc.
Lastly, just block the account if you don’t want to see it. I have no idea why people are so upset at a bot for giving them free, helpful information they can choose to ignore or block.
When a venture capital enterprise founded on incorporating AI into the news injects itself into every thread people are going to have a problem and not just to block or ignore.
This isn’t ground news, it is MBFC. They don’t use AI for their ratings, and they aren’t vc funded. Literally both of those are next to each other on their about page if you cared to look.
Once again, the bot is giving you free information about the media source in the bot with more info linked on their site for free. You are free to ignore or block it. I just don’t understand throwing a fit about the existence of a bot designed to help users understand media bias for free.
If the mere existence of free and helpful information makes you so upset, just block it and walk away.
I was happy to ignore it until the threads about it came up and the people/person running the bot demonstrated they weren’t really going to listen to negative feedback. MBFC isn’t accurate on political bias, but it is accurate on reporting whether a source is well known/reliable. The bot maker doesn’t seem to care much about that. That’s probably why people prefer to downvote it so much now.
And, uh, I wouldn’t read any of my text here in ‘upset’. That’s just being silly.
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Why is the poor fact checker being downvoted into oblivion you poor useful idiots?
It is an ad bot for ground news masquerading as a fact checker.
Media Bias Fact Check, the source for the info the bot gives is not ground news. It’s one of ground news’ sources. They are not connected in any meaningful sense.
Also, it’s not an ad, it gives you all the information right in the bot for free and links to the site with more info for free. They aren’t encouraging you or even suggesting donating to or buying ground news or mbfc.
Lastly, just block the account if you don’t want to see it. I have no idea why people are so upset at a bot for giving them free, helpful information they can choose to ignore or block.
When a venture capital enterprise founded on incorporating AI into the news injects itself into every thread people are going to have a problem and not just to block or ignore.
This isn’t ground news, it is MBFC. They don’t use AI for their ratings, and they aren’t vc funded. Literally both of those are next to each other on their about page if you cared to look.
Once again, the bot is giving you free information about the media source in the bot with more info linked on their site for free. You are free to ignore or block it. I just don’t understand throwing a fit about the existence of a bot designed to help users understand media bias for free.
If the mere existence of free and helpful information makes you so upset, just block it and walk away.
I was happy to ignore it until the threads about it came up and the people/person running the bot demonstrated they weren’t really going to listen to negative feedback. MBFC isn’t accurate on political bias, but it is accurate on reporting whether a source is well known/reliable. The bot maker doesn’t seem to care much about that. That’s probably why people prefer to downvote it so much now.
And, uh, I wouldn’t read any of my text here in ‘upset’. That’s just being silly.