This bot is spreading misinformation. This bot is spreading rightwing
propaganda. This bot is spamming every post. This bot is consistently downvoted.
This bot degrades the user experience. Please ban it.
People hate shitty bot, lw admin triples down and is threatening to make it against lw terms of service to down vote it.
Taking bets on how long until it's a confirmed violation to be against the bot?
I always thought of LW as the “default” sub here on Lemmy, but all of this: the rightwing bot itself, ‘please block the bot instead of downvoting’, the thinly veiled threats of ban; all of it is pretty strong evidence you are attempting to cultivate an ideological echo chamber here.
The forum we call storm.front because it's uniquely racist is the ideological default forum and it's shocking that right-wingers could co-opt their uniquely racist anticommunist forum
And even if they didn't start from a klansman's understanding of the world, their tolerance of fascists and their viewpoints would have turned them into storm.front eventually. There was really no hope for them
The rights of stupid users must be protected by MBFC, which clearly tells people that the CIA is trustworthy and unbiased (whereas anti-imperialist sources get seventeen Pinocchios because freedomrifle.com fact checked them and found that they contradicted sources they liked in an endless cycle and their claims supported the Bad Country^TM) so there is no confusion. This can be very helpful to stop people from seeing OBVIOUS PROPOGANDA.
I found a particularly egregious case of MBFC lies here:
The article they link that shows Electronic Intifada “failed a fact check” is fact checking a single person’s tweet, which references a video, and the article mentions EI only once in the main body, namely it’s linked as an article shared by the tweeter to PolitiFact in email correspondence to support his claim that the IOF killed Israeli concert goers, but this is dismissed by PF since:
The information he sent did not include or appear to mention the video footage he shared on X.
And the context he gave for the video footage is all that’s being ”fact checked”. The original fact checking article linked clearly says EI’s article had nothing to do with the footage he shared. But since EI’s article is included in their sources, and an idiotic reading of the title seems to say that PF is saying Israel didn’t shoot its own concert goers period and no footage shows that they did (this may be intentional), EI has been DEBUNKED. Liberal scripture!
Oh and their rating system is completely arbitrary (cover for liberal end of history-ism).
It appears to be a centrism bot. "Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent website that has promoted awareness of media bias and misinformation by rating the bias, factual accuracy, and credibility of media sources"
The bot tells users that US government funded propaganda organizations like Radio Free Asia is "Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High" and Voice of America is "Least Biased - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High"