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Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker bot?
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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That's the website, not the bot. I don't think the website is malware...lol
I think the problem is that the website uses the American standard, where reality is anything left of center
I agree with your statement here, the person who is calling it malware is misusing the term.
In order for it to be classified as malware you need to prove that it's intentionally being malicious, which from the provided evidence is unable to be done. in fact every step of evidence has been in the opposite direction, just because it gives potentially invalid information from its source doesn't mean that the bot is malware, the intent is noble, regardless if the information is fully valid or not. You can call the website malware if you like(although that's still a hard stretch) but the bot wouldn't be malware, it's working as intended and doing the job exactly as it described it would be,which is using the website to determine credibility of articles.
Malware is ill intentioned software.
The bot is a bot, i.e., software.
It's intended to drive the overton window right until fascism is perceived as mainstream, and probably beyond, either as a means of imposing fascism on society or to cause chaos and destabilisation, which is evidently ill intentioned in any case.
It's ill intentioned software, i.e., malware.
It's also pushing its ill intentioned disinformation onto the community's users against our will, so it's also spam, if being malware wasn't enough.
(As for the website, it's clearly a disinformation psy-op with the same ill intentions; whether a website counts enough as software to count as malware is open to debate, though, even if its ill intentions are not.)