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.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Is this the same media bias checking bot that thinks a Murdoch media owned news site was left leaning?

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      As a left-leaning Canadian, this seems crazy to me. There’s not even a place for me on this chart.

      It’s crazy how normalized right-wing extremism is. Well, it does explain the state of things in the US, though.

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I also don’t love that is has least biased in the center. Bias is a trait that is on an almost entirely separate axis.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

        The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Right, I almost forgot about the rage against the MBFC bot that went on for like MONTHS lmao. Seeing it downvoted to hell was hilarious though lol

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        10 days ago

        account age 1 year 8 months

        LOL, not a chance unless you were straight-up absent that whole time.