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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Overall, we rate HonestReporting Right-Center Biased based on support for right-leaning nationalist political parties. We also rate them as Mostly Factual rather than High due to the promotion of nationalist propaganda.

Weird how places they dislike get massively lowered for that, and their own rating system says it should be disqualification

Factuality Rating Levels

0: Very High – Consistently factual, uses credible information, no failed fact checks.
0.1–1.9: High – High factual, minor sourcing issues, reasonable fact check record
2.0–4.4: Mostly Factual – Generally reliable but may have occasional fact-check failures, transparency, and sourcing issues.
4.5–6.4: Mixed – Reliability varies; multiple fact-check failures, poor sourcing, lack of transparency, one-sidedness.
6.5–8.4: **Low – Often unreliable; frequent fact-check failures and significant issues with sourcing, transparency, propaganda, conspiracies, and pseudoscience promotion.**
8.5–10: Very Low – Consistently unreliable, heavily biased, with intentional misinformation likely.
[–] decrochay@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's interesting how they rate Drop Site News as being more biased and on par factually as HonestReporting (even though dropsitenews does real investigative journalism):

Its reporting is rated Mostly Factual due to one-sided narratives shaped by its strong anti-war stance

Their criticism of Drop Site's factuality is not that they've gotten the facts wrong, but that the facts they report do not align with a pro-war narrative.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah it's wild some of the reasons they use for why they rate things how they want. Only surprised there they didn't use to rank dropsite even lower