The Straits Times Media Bias Fact Check Credibility: [High] (Click to view Full Report)
The Straits Times is rated with High Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check.
Bias: Right-Center
Factual Reporting: Mostly Factual
Country: Singapore
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.I wish people would stop linking to this crap, it is literally just what one individual American centrist thinks of sources. In his methodology he explicitly states centrist (from an American standpoint) sources are intrinsically more credible.
It’s not ‘one guy’. It’s him and a team of volunteers/contractors.
Doesn’t make them perfect, but I defy you to find better for this use.
If you have a better source of both bias and credibility with an API that lets us automate it, I’m open!
I dont. I dont even have a problem with using it to filter out the really terrible sources automatically. But anything further than that is placing too much trust in some guy’s opinion (IMO)
If only you understood how computers dealt with timezones… you’d be amazed how much critical shit in the world ends up being run by “Just one guy we all sort of just trust”.
Im aware of ntp, I’ve had to debug timezone errors before. But labeling which news sources are trustworthy and which arent is inherently politcal in a way timezones arent.
If you have a good source that’s not biased, let’s see it?
Because if not, why automate introducing a bias.
MB/FC is a good source that is not biased.
It is so biased!
Have you ever looked at the reviews it gives papers? Like the actual reasoning? It’s biased as fuck.
It’s a bot and this comment will be under every single submission here now. Check the pinned post.
I know its a bot, I still think its missleading to promote this one guy’s opinion like he is a font of truth.
It’s easier to judge the credibility of one guy than a thousand guys.
To be fair, I don’t much attention to it either, and you can always block the bot so that you don’t see it. I already blocked that AI summary bot because I don’t trust some random person’s LLM to be unbiased and truthful.
You are claiming the MB/FC is “crap” and at least indirectly accusing it of bias or poor methodology. Since I have a subscription to Ground.News I’m able to see how MB/FCs assessments compare against other outlets doing the same job such as Ad Fontes, Wikipedia, and others and MB/FC seems to be reasonably consistent with their peers.
So do you have any concrete examples of MB/FC getting it wrong or being wildly different than their peers?
Both Ground News and Media Bias are tuned to a very US-centric vision of what is left or right, which means that thanks to this right biased Overton window, anything they classify as left would probably be considered center in Europe. Unfortunately, said window is also slinding to the right in Europe under the influence of European right leaders calling anything left of center “far-left”, see for example : Macron.
Both Ground News and Media Bias are tuned to a very US-centric vision of what is left or right
It’s a fair criticism but the idea that there’s some Media Bias organization out there that CAN do the job is false. Everywhere in the world is very skewed from the rest of the world. Someone in Venezuela would likely not agree with a bias rating given by someone in the UK and they likely wouldn’t agree with someone in India who would likely not agree with someone in China. What you’re basically saying, perhaps without realizing it, is that bias ratings shouldn’t be given at all.
Unfortunately, said window is also slinding to the right in Europe under the influence of European right leaders calling anything left of center “far-left”, see for example : Macron.
Excellent example. To an American Macron would be “Far Left”. To a Frenchie he’s “Center”. In China he’d likely be “Right or Far Right”.
This highlight the problem. NO Media Bias organization could ever possibly hope to encompass all of that, so the best that’s possible is for the rating organization to clearly explain their viewpoint, methodology, and be consistent in their ratings. All of which I think MB/FC is doing acceptably well.
It’s so funny seeing how unserious everyone is, ultra left attacking trains is such a common irony t’s almost like the universe can only house absurdity
Horseshoe theory keeps on winning
From LLM :
“The Horseshoe Theory is a concept in political science and sociology that suggests that the far-left and far-right of the political spectrum have more in common than they do with the political center”
Similar definition here : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
(you get my upvote 😄👍)Lemmy. Ml gets big mad if you call them out for this
