Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I blocked the bot as soon as I learned how. The ratings are a joke - mostly because of its American bias.

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I suppose we’ve got to keep at it until we’re at a point where doing something is better than doing nothing. Where, of course, doing nothing is somewhat of an acknowledgement of the fact it’s hard to do something right enough to be able to apply it to all posts and all articles and all that.

  An analogy comes to mind: it’s like the difference between telling hikers they’re at their own risk and advising them to bring water, good shoes, and a fully charged battery, and they’ll be fine. If you can’t account for everything, there are arguments to be made with trying to shift responsibility back to people with either more general or more specific warnings.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My impression is that people will be eager to tell in the comments that a news source is bad or biased, or that the specific article is misinformation.

    At the end of the day, if you just trust some rank value that someone tossed in, w.o. knowing who is behind it exactly and how they reached that conclusion, it can be an easy source for disinformation.

    Also some news outlets are providing reliable coverage on some issues, while being biased on others. Often they just repeat texts from Reuters, AP or other agencies. So any single value rating can warn you that the same message is “biased” in one case and in another case it cheers it on as “reliable”.

    In other words: You can keep jumping out of the window in different ways, trying to find a way for humans to fly w.o. mechanical help, or you can just accept taking the stairs.

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree that this is necessary, but we need to be mindful with the implementation. A decentralized approach might be more effective than relying on a centralized list. As you mentioned, a warning that encourages people to think critically and not take everything at face value is likely the best solution for now.

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• vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t see any comments when I click that link

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Try this other post lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24920368

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    • vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      that worked thanks

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you have filter? Block community? Like politics 😝

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    • vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ha, that’s possible.

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