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I always thought of LW as the “default” sub here on Lemmy, but all of this: the rightwing bot itself, ‘please block the bot instead of downvoting’, the thinly veiled threats of ban; all of it is pretty strong evidence you are attempting to cultivate an ideological echo chamber here.
The forum we call storm.front because it's uniquely racist is the ideological default forum and it's shocking that right-wingers could co-opt their uniquely racist anticommunist forum 
And even if they didn't start from a klansman's understanding of the world, their tolerance of fascists and their viewpoints would have turned them into storm.front eventually. There was really no hope for them
It's almost like being aggressively anti-communist attracts fascists
What a 'weird' phenomena
Ah yes but WE'RE the redfash authoritarian sissy pee tankies though. Definitely Hexbear and not world. Yep. Totally.
Lmao what is that admin four years old
Based on their reactions to everything, yes
Is duckass their admins pale attempt to immitate ppb?
I’m afraid you have left me no choice but to shame you with a photo of… one adorable kitten! 👹
What it seems like.
For a server that loves to go be civil to others got a weird way to show it
The vegans are killing animals! it's the vegans!
The rights of stupid users must be protected by MBFC, which clearly tells people that the CIA is trustworthy and unbiased (whereas anti-imperialist sources get seventeen Pinocchios because freedomrifle.com fact checked them and found that they contradicted sources they liked in an endless cycle and their claims supported the Bad Country^TM) so there is no confusion. This can be very helpful to stop people from seeing OBVIOUS PROPOGANDA.
I found a particularly egregious case of MBFC lies here:
The article they link that shows Electronic Intifada “failed a fact check” is fact checking a single person’s tweet, which references a video, and the article mentions EI only once in the main body, namely it’s linked as an article shared by the tweeter to PolitiFact in email correspondence to support his claim that the IOF killed Israeli concert goers, but this is dismissed by PF since:
The information he sent did not include or appear to mention the video footage he shared on X.
And the context he gave for the video footage is all that’s being ”fact checked”. The original fact checking article linked clearly says EI’s article had nothing to do with the footage he shared. But since EI’s article is included in their sources, and an idiotic reading of the title seems to say that PF is saying Israel didn’t shoot its own concert goers period and no footage shows that they did (this may be intentional), EI has been DEBUNKED. Liberal scripture!
Oh and their rating system is completely arbitrary (cover for liberal end of history-ism).
Anything negative of Israel gets marked lower for odd reasons. If positive of Israel 9/10 get highest ranking.
Like UN Watch
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/un-watch/
Then stuff like guardian get docked big
There’s genuinely no way.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/radio-free-asia/
Founded in 1951, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting agency of the United States government that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while “advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy.”
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
The Chinese govt sharing x website’s articles because they support their POV is proof of BIAS and PROPAGANDA LAUNDERING. The American govt.’s “news source” that is expressly propaganda for US hegemony is HIGHLY FACTUAL (we know because they said so) and only SLIGHTLY LEANS TO THE LEFT.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/
Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates. (D. Van Zandt 3/4/2017) Updated (12/07/2023)
“For example, the article [‘Nazi genocide against Jewish population’] is emotionally loaded and one-sided against the [German] government due to its use of highly charged language and its singular focus on alleged atrocities committed by [the Nazis] without providing context or perspectives from the [German] side.” So on and so forth.
Wondrous!
Erm HRW (not a biased Western NGO) made a report (deconstructed by Norman Finkelstein) that weakly suggests this POV. No we will not include any evidence that suggests Israel is responsible, such as them bombing the cancer ward of that same hospital days earlier, an IOF spokesman cheering on the bombing as attacking Hamas, Israel misrepresenting Al Jazeera footage and their own as well, faking phone calls and video, etc. It’s clear from scale alone and the pattern of bombing hospitals that Israel was responsible, and this is where fence-sitting becomes absurd.
Yeah but it's using that founder's methodology so it's good now.
Guess what lw doesn't allow as a news source...
you just don't like it's ranking your sources low
This is true, but I don’t like that it’s ranking my sources low because it’s doing it dishonestly.
Agreed but that's their go to shit excuse
What is this bot and where can I see what it posts?
It's a bot that just says that Radio Free Asia is completely unbiased every time you post an RFA link, absolutely nothing to be concerned about. 
It appears to be a centrism bot. "Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent website that has promoted awareness of media bias and misinformation by rating the bias, factual accuracy, and credibility of media sources"
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/
https://lemmy.world/u/MediaBiasFactChecker
The bot tells users that US government funded propaganda organizations like Radio Free Asia is "Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High" and Voice of America is "Least Biased - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High"