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Lemmy, where do you get your daily news?
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That is why you have multiple internets earch engines. Snopes, MBFC and so on are not infiltrating news organisations with their own spies, they also use Google and so on. You, instead, can use Qwant, Bing, Yandex, Google, Baidu and so on. Multiple search engines. Multiple resources.
Do you know the methodology of how Snopes or MBFC work? Are they transparent? Are their financial records transparent? No, they are not. Learn to research yourself.
You are not going to deflect this conversation with "gimme sources while I keep goalshifting to distract your focus" anymore. It stops now.
You are insisting these fact checkers that take questionable sponsorships or are part of questionable organisations are unbiased and people should rely on them, instead of learning to research themselves.
I'm not insisting anything. How do you verify the website that was given to you in the search engine iz trustworthy?
By looking at its country origin, funding, associations and so on?
So for every single news article you completely research every facet of a company? You have way more patience than i do. But that probably is what it takes on the internet today.
I'd assume once you research a company though that you wouldn't research it again, you just save yourself time and go based on your original research?
Or do you check up on each and everytime?
Do you have a list of ones you trust?
I research news outlets once a year or so to keep in check. Then I cross check with Mwdia Navigator chart on SWPRS, which has zero external funding and is an independent anonymous group, and funnily, absolutely smeared up on Wikipedia in a disgusting manner. You will not see such smearing on any other fact checker.
You can learn here how to work around the bias of fact checking and learn how to do it yourself. SWPRS even reiterates your point about Google.
https://swprs.org/seven-tips-on-media-use/ https://opinionfront.com/types-reasons-of-media-bias https://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/how-to-detect-bias-in-news-media/