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[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that their methodology downgrades factual rankings if they (arbitrarily) deem a source left/right bias even if they’ve never failed a fact check shows how terrible it is.

They give the ADL which Wikipedia has deemed unreliable their 2nd highest ranking shows even their fact checking isn’t good.

[–] Timii@biglemmowski.win -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the reasons journalists (are supposed to) minimize bias is because if they tell one side of a story by definition they omit information from the other side.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If they omit information then you can fact check that. Automatically downgrading factuality because they’re not considered centrist by the website arbitrary definition that’s based on the USs skewed view of left and right isn’t objective in anyway.