Recently Lemmy.World admins have heavily started pushing an MBFC bot in their bigger subs despite it being deeply unpopular with the users.
However rating propaganda was not enough for the mods as they are now actively fundraising for MBFC as well.
Evidence MBFC is ran by a Zionist:
The bias towards any pro-israel lobby website on MBFC is astoundingly obvious. Take for example UNWatch. UNwatch is still pushing the UNRWA is Hamas propaganda despite it being fully debunked by every country.
Surely a website like this spreading blatant propagands would have a poor MBFC. rating. Let's check it out!
MBFC knows that UNWatch is an israeli lobby but just doesn't think that's very important for their credibility rating
For sites criticizing israel it works the other way around.
They do not have to fail any fact checks, just being designated as a 'hate group' by an israeli lobby is enough for MBFC to become a questionable source.
This is known to the lemmy.world admins and mods
Over the course of the last 9 months I have pointed out multiple times in public and private messages that MBFC is an incredibly bad source of ratings. Multiple other users have also made summaries for the .World mods and admins over the last week (and before that).
The admins have willingly ignored this criticism and now added a donation link to the MBFC bot knowing full well what MBFC stands for. Lemmy.World is directly endorsing the Zionist media lobby.
News, I can't speak to, I'm not a mod there. The note in the modlog simply reads "antisemitism".
World News it was because you repeatedly backed a group that uses child soldiers after being informed and told to stop.
Here's your modlog for bans:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=4&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=3867209
First page can be pretty much ignored, looks like it was undoing a wider ban than was intended.
The MBFC push is because we are entering a contentious election and the number of posts from specious sources is increasing.
Rather than have the mods fact/bias check each article manually, the bot was enacted as a timesaver.
The number of people complaining about it is a vast minority.
However, I did talk to Rookie about it. The #1 problem is many lemmy apps don't correctly proc the spoiler tag so the bot post ends up being WAAAAY bigger than anyone intended it to be.
So, first, I worked with another mod to determine how bad tag support is on the lemmy apps... it's actually pretty bad.
https://lemmy.world/post/18159539
Second, I hit up Rookie to let him know the problem, he's taking steps to tighten up the bot.
Probably because, most users/people never check the roots of the site itself. But as admins of a discussion website, you probably should?
Basing your trust upon something because it's aptly named "media bias fact check" makes you look like a gullible fool who tries to link "vaccinesfactcheck.org" to defend anti-vac idiots.
Domains are around $10, damn it. It doesn't make you have superior facts.
Having a check/truth/facts/reliable words on a domain name doesn't make it reliable or trustworthy.
Honestly, it makes you seem like people who'd download a sketchy malicious "Paypal Money Generator" from realpaypalmoneygenerator.org back in the days.
Do better.
MBFC is reliable, from a bias standpoint and a reliability standpoint.
The people complaining are the ones who are not having their own biases validated.
But I'll offer you the same option I offer them... Name another site that's better with a publicly available API for automation. I'm open to the idea that there's something better.
AllSides is great, but they only get into bias, and not credibility, which is a huge problem. It is possible to be highly biased and highly credible at the same time. Ex. Mother Jones. Nobody would say they aren't biased, they also produce excellent, high quality journalism.
AdFontes is great, but doesn't have a publicly available API.
So is my worldnews ban getting removed or should I assume you and the other mods support it?
I generally don't reverse another mod unless they TOTALLY go off the rails, and in my short time as mod, I've only seen that twice.
In this case, personally, I don't think I'd have perma-banned you. Temp ban, certainly. You can try appealing to the mod that banned you and reference this comment.
The /news ban is because I debunked the fake Zionist rape hoax about oct7. Which has now been confirmed fake by the UN.
As for the worldnews claim, I was banned for saying the Houthis are not randomly attacking ships but to stop the Genocide in Gaza.
Which was used as an excuse to ban me under false pretenses because mod FlyingSquid was pushing Zionist propaganda that any group fighting against the Genocide of Palestinians actually has ulterior motives and nobody cares about Palestinians.
As for the MBFC bot, I have proven above and mentioned plenty that site is ran by a Zionist. Spamming donation links for it is insanely suspicious. News and worldnews already filter allowed posting sites using MBFC, nobody asked for its spam.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15621.doc.htm
What?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150946
Here's a summary of the relevant parts highlighted.
Oh so you’re purposefully taking the story and not reading/understanding it. “We think it happened but can’t confirm it” somehow becomes “they don’t believe it” in your mind. Gotcha
Can't confirm means no evidence.
If there was evidence israel would have shown the world. But there's not.
Unless you are saying you believe israel on their word? After many of the rape accusations have been proven false and made up because israel claimed people that did not exist were raped?
The UN did confirm israel is raping Palestinians in their concentration camps btw.
No, plenty of people do. Some illustrate that they definitely don't care about them, though, by calling for anti-Palestinian votes in the US presidential election. Every ten minutes.