A Boring Dystopia

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MBFC Credibility - High (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] mholiv 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

While I acknowledge that the MBFC does have some right wing bias, I think it serves its purpose. Aka to flag literal propaganda “news” sites.

The titles are literally accurate in the image. Israel is (unethically) launching preemptive strikes.

If you look at the .ml news communities that don’t use MBFC you will see that way too many news stories are from literally Russia Today, Southern China Morning Post, and other extremely biased to a very particular agenda publications.

I think people are trying to tie MBFC to being Zionist just so the bot will be dropped and it will be easier for them to normalize things like Russia Today outside of .ml spaces.

[–] jorp 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that's quite the theory.... does the bot somehow prevent posts from those places? were there more instances of popular posts from those places before the bot?

[–] mholiv 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wouldn’t say it’s a theory. Just my thoughts / speculation. I would speculate that people who are pushing out RT / Alex Jones level content would be more hesitant to do so if there would be a big “this is not a reliable news source” sticker next to it.

I would speculate that people who point Alex Jones / RT stuff just hope people read the article without thinking about where it comes from.

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