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For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
This doctor was tortured to death by israel near the start of the Genocide to make false confessions about Khamaspitals.
Had never heard of this source before, glad to hear it’s legit, but what an awful story :(
What tool is that bias checker?
Unless there's another one that looks very very similar, I'm guessing its:
yep. They are by no means perfect, but their competition rates AP and Reuters as left leaning lol, so they are the best we’ve got that I know of.
I find that, at least with local Canadian Politics, they're pretty accurate at least. So I'm guessing it would be similar for the U.S, although the number of so-called "media" sources is far larger.
I got blasted in a c/world thread because I used it to show a source that was untrustworthy. And ppl were saying its the factcheckerbias tool is unreliable cuz it rates the NYT as “factual”. I was suprised to get so much pushback.
Sadly, for many people, "factual" means "does it agree with what I already think?".
Those people are lost causes.
MBFC is very bad.
They rate israeli propaganda outlets as "high credibility" such as the UNwatch that spouts straight israeli propaganda. Their entire front page still "UNRWA = Hamas" which has already been fully debunked
Which bias checker do you recommend?
Good question. I've made up my own mind on newspapers biases so I don't use a bias checker anymore.
Every "bias checker" has its own bias. There is no such thing as an objective newspaper. It's best to use sources that don't have a stake in a conflict. But MBFC is ran by liberal Zionists so they certainly aren't a good rating source when it comes to israel-Palestine.
Middle East Eye is UK, based in London. They cover stories mostly pertaining to the Middle East and Africa. Currently Palestine and Sudan are what they cover most.
Because their employees often have connections in the regions they are able to get a more local perspective on the news than most of our mainstream outlets.
Nothing new for the apartheid entity.