gives off the same ‘solution looking for a problem’ vibes as corporate marketing around ai lmao

The Bot is wildly inaccurate as other people have pointed out. Even having the idea of potentially one person verifying the veracity of all news media is plainly ludicrous.

I don’t like it because it’s placing an objective statement on a subjective matter. it’s also apparently run by a single person (which is understandable given what it needs to do) but I just don’t like the vibes that gives off.

I think it’d be a lot better if it just stated objective things (e.g. where their funding comes from, the corporate relationships, country they’re based in)

I honestly don’t understand

Could have just stopped there tbh.

From what I’ve seen, it is pretty accurate

It’s not. It’s the hobby of a right wing Zionist masquerading as a neutral and authorative arbiter of facts and bias.

For example, it rates The Guardian, Fox News and Breitbart as equally factual.

Is it that people see the comment count go up and expect a human comment to interact with, only to be disappointed and then downvote the bot?

That too, yes. Personally I have it blocked and get annoyed by there being no comments in stead.

If so, I’d suggest Lemmy/Mbin to not could comments made by bot accounts towards the total comment count.

Or just get rid of the biased and counterfactual bias and fact checker.

MBFC equates respectable outlets like The Guardian and literal nazi rag Breitbart

It’s propaganda masquerading as impartiality

It might have something to do with their steadfast insistence on rating literal Zionist propaganda outlets that spread straight up lies that have been debunked hundreds of times over as “extremely credible”.

Just ignoring reality like that tends to hurt the credibility of a credibility meter.

I downvoted it when it showed clear bias, which was most of the comments I saw.

For me I liked it at first but ended up blocking it after it started doing “more stories like” which revealed that it was clearly there to turn a profit.