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And where do you get the ground truths for the bias of the sites?
by dri_ft 6y ago
And where do you get the ground truths for the bias of the sites?
- totemandtoken 6y agoAt the moment I'm using allsides.com[1]. There will always be some dispute about how biased a news organization is, but most people have the general understanding that, for example, Breitbart is more right than the HuffPo. At some point I'd like to add a voting feature, so you're basically trying to compete against the crowd [1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
- skizm 6y agoSo really you're betting on what "allsides.com" thinks, not if an article is actually right or left leaning (since there is no objective measure of right/left leaning).
- totemandtoken 6y agoSomewhat. Allsides has a whole system[1] as to how they assign bias which is fairly robust, in my opinion. You're not betting on what the moderator at allsides think a source bias is, you're betting on what all of the patrons at allsides think the source bias is which is a little better. But you are right in that no one can "objectively" measure partisanship since there is no such thing. [1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-methods https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method...