• ozoned@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I’m in the US so Reuters, NPR, AP. But there are so many “news” websites around anymore I usually take everything I read with a dose of skepticism and I look at Snopes and MediaBiasFactCheck often.

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      3 years ago

      Snopes has been a former Facebook checker and MBFC has Google Analytics. I would be a little afraid and cautious.

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        3 years ago

        Yes please asses the credibility of their articles based on their associations with shady companies instead of the contents plausibility.

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          3 years ago

          You think the funding and affiliations of organisations have nothing to do with the agenda they propagate? Oh summer child.

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              3 years ago

              Snopes is not a publisher, but acting as the arbiter of truths. So if they have backing by biased entities, that leaves them vulnerable to be biased since these enitites are the stakeholders and customers, not people who might be relying on them to see facts.

              Only the customer is served by these groups. You are not a customer of Snopes or MBFC.

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                3 years ago

                There is no independent media. This doesn’t mean that there is no value in consuming it. If some source tells you they are “unbiased”, independent from advertisers/funding or free of (private) agenda they either intentionally lie or lack self-reflection.

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                  3 years ago

                  There exists independent media. You clearly do not know your stuff and are willing to deny it as well. You have made up your mind, so this conversation is over.