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[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
  1. Visit https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
  2. Notice Factual Reporting is “Mixed”
  3. Scroll down to “Failed Fact Checks”
  4. Review.

The website very clearly has a massive centrist, pro-capitalism bias. By picking and choosing what “fact checks” to include, they can tilt the “fact-based reporting” metric in whatever way they choose.

This metric is what is being included by the bot. That is the topic of conversation. If that metric is biased. It very, very, very clearly is.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you just criticize a fact checking organization by calling it centrist? Are you looking for a more left or right biased fact checker?

[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, I’m guessing you're American. Basically, your country is so fucked up that you call the right wing left wing and you call the far-right right wing. And centrism is like between right wing and far-right. Does that make sense? So when I say it’s centrist, I mean it’s right wing, but not explicitly fascist. Just contributing towards fascism in a “slow and steady” kind of way. You know, classical liberalism, neo-liberal, that kinda stuff.

It’s also very clearly zionist, so calling it centrist was me being a little bit nice.

Left wing is anti-capitalist, right wing is pro-capitalist. Hope that helps.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That clears it up a little. Thanks for explaining what you meant by centrist being right wing.