this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
486 points (83.1% liked)

World News

39339 readers
2927 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wrench 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop up voting Newsweek. They are not a reputable publication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Without being condescending, can you give sauce? And for reference, what you consider reputable publications?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Newsweek isn't terrible (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsweek), but sources like reuters or associated press are usually more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seems reasonable. I've tried improvethenews.org, which is an AI attempt at balanced reporting. But I've found it to put too much equal representation of the extreme right viewpoints, which are not on planet earth so I have to filter/ignore all the pro Trump gibberish.

[–] Wrench 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact check link posted by the other user is good.

Newsweek tends to take some news fact, often not even fact but a possible outcome of some developing story, and write a full opinion piece on a tangent.

We get a lot of Salon articles here doing the same thing.

As far as reputable, I would say apnews, Reuters, politico, CNN, BBC off the top of my head.

I know CNN will be contested. They have an annoying amount of opinion in their stories, but I do find that they clearly separate what's objective fact and what's editorial opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those are what I use. I've tried improvethenews.org, which is based upon AI trying to give balanced articles, but when one side of the political spectrum is so extreme it's not "balanced" to have equal representation so I have to filter/ignore the pro Trump BS.