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>If you ask it about anything political it's going to be from a certain slant I'm not sure if there's anything else out there that's better at giving a fairly
by tim333 1y ago
>If you ask it about anything political it's going to be from a certain slant
I'm not sure if there's anything else out there that's better at giving a fairly neutral summary of political controversies?
It reminds me of the Churchill quote "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
- Gareth321 1y agoGround.news is quite good. It provides a bias meter next to publications, and offers a blind spot tool so one doesn't only see one side of a report or discussion. Wikipedia doesn't have such a counter-measure. Most of the political pages have been entirely captured and there are no mechanisms promote neutrality. On the contrary. WikiProjects, Arbitration Committees, and Administrators are all very entrenched positions and once the scales tipped towards a left wing American political bias, there is no way to tip them back.
- rc_mob 1y agostupid reality and its left wing bias
- apparent 1y agoThis cute phrase was much more believable before Democrats were so insistently wrong about so many important things during COVID (lab leak theory, efficacy of cloth mask mandates, arresting surfers on the beach, natural versus vaccine immunity).
- apparent 1y agoI see that others disagree. Perhaps you can share which of the items I mentioned you disagree with?
- voldacar 1y agoA quantitative look which might interest you: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-biased https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...
- sethherr 1y agoThe article address this very criticism
- grafmax 1y ago> Results show a mild to moderate tendency in Wikipedia articles to associate public figures ideologically aligned right-of-center with more negative sentiment than public figures ideologically aligned left-of-center It could be that politicians right of center have a tendency to do things which merit negative sentiment slightly more often than politicians left of center. It begs the question to call this bias.