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.
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.