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    WTVF - NewsChannel5 - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)

    Information for WTVF - NewsChannel5:

    MBFC: Least Biased - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
    Wikipedia about this source

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    https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/fbi-agents-execute-search-warrant-on-tennessee-congressman-andy-ogles-newschannel-5-confirms

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      3 months ago

      I have seen this bot around few a few weeks, and while the theoretical concept is good, it can’t work in reality.

      Someone has to define what bias a news source has, and they has their own biases, this bot will only serve to confuse and misslead uninformed users.

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        3 months ago

        if you don’t like it, feel free to block it

        also, it’s been 9 days, not “a few weeks”-- although the past 9 days sure as hell feels like a few weeks…

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          The past 9 days have been the longest month of my past 5 millennia that I’ve always been alive till the end of existence

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          If you don’t like it, feel free to block it

          I will do so shortly, but wanted to raise the issue before since it might be spreading missinformation.

          also, it’s been 9 days, not “a few weeks”-- although the past 9 days sure as hell feels like a few weeks…

          Fair point, I’ll assume you are the person running the bot, so you probably knows more about it than me. I am and was tired when I wrote that, and didn’t doublecheck.

          I have raised the issue I wanted to, and I’ll block the bot in a few minutes, one word of advice would be to reword the comment to say something like “The current reputation of Generic_News seems to lean toward it being generic”, so the bot makes less absolute statements.

          Anyway, I am off to bed to sleep and possibly dream about terminating speaker wires.

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            i don’t run the bot, nor do i have any connection to whomever does. i just don’t get this “i disagree, therefore i must be disinformation!” attitude, especially since i haven’t seen any compelling evidence to support such a claim, especially your specific accusation, “since it might be spreading missinformation.”

            just block it and move on

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              I never said that I disagreed with the bot, I said that it is pretending to be unbiased, which is impossible since a human created the list of definitions it uses.

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                3 months ago

                It lists ap news as left center, so clearly it’s accurate because reality has a liberal bias.

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        3 months ago

        It works pretty good in reality though - their assessments are based on certain criteria and are generally fair.

        “Everyone is biased so stop reporting on bias” seems to be one of those civil-society-corroding memes that have gone around recently.

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          That is fair, I guess I take issue with how the bot makes it sound as if it reporting the unbiased truth, it would be better if it said something like:

          “Generic News is a digital newspaper reportibg on global events, it was founded in 2022 by Generic Trends, a marketing company. The stated goals of Generic News is to be unbiased and equal in their reporting, but the site has quickly gained a reputation of leaning toward libertarianism.”