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I guess we should just dismiss it based on that it comes from right-leaning people, rather than evaluate it on its merits.

• bklaasen 5y ago
  Fair point - I ought to have stated my intention along with the "Media Bias Fact Check" (MBFC) link. I'm unconcerned with the political position of the site, but I am concerned out the "mixed" quality rating. There's as awful lot of content out there, and MBFC provides a quick-and-dirty evaluation of whether you might want to engage more deeply with any given (new to you) source.
  • 4oo4 5y ago
    That's fair, and this is an interesting resource for evaluating bias, thanks for sharing it. And research institutes like this can definitely be used to launder oligarch policy preferences with academic legitimacy, so being critical of things like this is always a good thing. To me, it's really interesting that a right-leaning libertarian capitalist publication would have overlapping ideas with the socialist left, so I think the discussion has merit even if the people presenting it here may be tainted by bias.
    • aww_dang 5y ago
      Who doesn't have a bias? Aren't subjective views just part of the human condition? Couldn't we say that there is a bias in those calibrating the bias? At the end of the day, I am more interested in hearing from users and how they evaluate the content on its own merits as you suggested, rather than a predigested bias warning. If anything this may serve to bias readers before they go into the content itself.